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Show APPOINT SPECIAL 1EFEREUN CASE K-ANSAS CITY, April 17 To decide de-cide questions of law growing out of the H L. Perkins life insurance cases, a special refereo Is to be appointed as a. result of a decision today by Judge Pollock of the United States circuit court in Kansas City, Kan , who heard motions to consolidate the twelve- casos. The twelvo caocs are tho result of tho failure of tho life lnsuranco com paules to pay policies on the life of Perkins, a lawyer of Lawrence, Kan , who sevoral years ago fell from the roof of a house In Lawrence and was picked up dead. It wbb charged that Perkins death was not accidental, but that It was duo to morphine poisoning taken shortly after he had ontalned $500,000 life insurance. |