Court Rules Reuben Hemingray not dead

NOT LEGALLY DEAD

Is Court's Ruling in Case of Man Who

Disappeared.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Louisville, Ky., November 4. — Because teh [sic] the demise of Reuben P. Hemingray was not proved to the satisfaction of the Court, Judge William H. Field this morning decided that there as no cause of action in the petition filed against the State Mutual Life Assurance Society by Mrs. Felix Kerrick, who was Hemingray's wife at the time of his disappearance, September 23, 1895. The petition was based on the as­sumption that Hemingray died at the time of his disappearance. The Court took the opposite view, holding the death not to have been established.

The policy sued on was issued to Hemingray four months prior to his disappear­ance. For an annual premium of $248.50 the defendant had agreed to pay Hemingray $10,000 on June 1, 1937, or, in the event of his death prior to that date, to pay that sum to his widow. As stated, he left the state the following September and according to the wording of the opinion, "has not. in so far as the plaintiff knows, been heard of since."