Lewis v. Kansas City Life Insurance Company. Kansas City Life Insurance Company v. Renshaw

859 F.2d 154 Unpublished Disposition NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. French E. LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. KANSAS CITY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Missouri corporation, Defendant-Appellee. KANSAS CITY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Third-Party-Plaintiff, v. Lynda Miller RENSHAW, Third-Party-Defendant. Nos. 87-3611, 87-3621. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Sept. 14, 1988. Decided Sept. 16, 1988. Before EUGENE A. WRIGHT, WALLACE and HUG, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 We must decide whether life insurance offered by Kansas City Life Insurance Company was in effect at the time of Luther Card's death. The district court concluded that it was not. Affirmed. 3 In December 1983, insurance agent Lynda Miller Renshaw submitted to Kansas City Life an application for $50,000 of life insurance on Mr. Card. The application named as beneficiary French Lewis, Mr. Card's brother and Renshaw's father. A check for $1,835…