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PENN MUT. INS. CO. v. FIELDS

No. 7854.

81 F.Supp. 54 (1948)

PENN MUT. LIFE INS CO. v. FIELDS et al.

United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.

Supplemental Opinion November 24, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Melveny & Myers, L. M. Wright and Franklin T. Hamilton, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for complainant.

John W. Preston, Sr. and John W. Preston, Jr., both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Walter Fields and Adel C. Smith.

Mark Herron, Ernest A. Tolin and G. Allen Bisbee, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Harriet V. Fields.

YANKWICH, District Judge.

I. The Factual Situation in the Case

W. C. Fields, the well-known actor, died in Los Angeles County, California, on December 25, 1946. Surviving him are his widow, Harriet V. Fields, to whom he was married at San Francisco, in 1900, and a son, W.Claude Fields, born in 1903. At the time of his death, the marriage had not been dissolved, although the parties had not lived together, as husband...

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