Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
Companies Will Seek in Court to
Retain Vital Organs of Fertilizer
Manufacturer Recently Exam
ined by Chemists in East.
Plea Will Be Made That Jackson
vile Man Failed to Tell of 9th
or Policies He Held When He
Made His Many Applications,

JACKSONVILLE, June 21.-The
real beginning of the fight for the
million dollar z. o. Painter insur-
ance comes Wednesday,. On that
day attorneys for the Painter fam
lily must show cause, if any, before
Judge Duffy in Baltimore, why the
court should not appoint a receiver
for the vital organs of the dead fer
tilizer manufacturer.
The Fidelity and Casualty Company
Of Baltimore, which carried $4,000
accident insurance for Painter, took
the initiative in asking for the re-
ceiver, after having obtained an in
junction restraining DR.. Charles
CHASER from returning Painters vi
tails to the family
The insurance companies are not
satisfied with the report of DR.. Gla-
ser, who made a chemical analysis
Of Painters stomach and under
whose direction DIR. Stanislaus Nc
Leary conducted a pathological test
of other organs. These chemists
were acting at the instance of the
Painter family. The insurance COM
panies want Independent examina-
lions made and have gone into the
Baltimore courts to bring that about.
Inquest on Monday.
Coroner c. D. Abbott announced to-
no
sumed at 1880 o'clock Monday morn
ing The insurance companies and
the family are anxiously awaiting the
verdict of the Coroner's jury before
making the next move.
Although 1t has been a month since
Painter lost his life in the St Johns
River, the inquest over his body has
only reached the preliminary stages
The only steps vet taken have
been for the jury to be impaneled
and view the body. No documen-
tary evidence or personal testimony
has been presented to the jurors.
The announced cause for the long
delay has been that for more than
three weeks the Baltimore chemists
will be engaged in examining and re-
porting on the contents of Painters
organs.
Coroner Abbott has now re-
ceived the chemical analysis of the
stomach which was made by DIR.
CHASER.
The Painter family has as yet
fled no claims or proofs of death
with the insurance companies to col
lect on the Sits 600 policies he car
ried at the time of his death. But the
insurance companies have not waited
for these formalities before resorting
to litigation to resist payment.
The receivership petition in Balti-
senting the family had secured parts
of Painters organs and hurriedly
left that city
Arthur L. Jackson, a Baltimore
attorney, is in Jacksonville to-day
ia confer with the Painter family and
determine the line of defense to the
receivership proceedings. He fol-
lowed quickly on the heels of Drs.
p. c. Perry and J. f. Boyd, the
Painter family physicians, who took
part of the Painter organs from DIR.
Chaser before papers could be served
on the chemist restraining him from
parting with them.
Attorney jackson has been looking
after the legal interests Of the family
at Baltimore while the analysis was
in progress and since the chemists
report was sent here. Judge A. L.
Stewart. of Deland, Painters broth
er-in-law, has been in Baltimore at
the family's personal representative.
Companies Break Silence.
Insurance men here and elsewhere
refrained from committing them
selves or their companies on the
course to be pursued by them until
after the Baltimore chemisas find
ings had become known. When the
report came back that no trace Of
poison had been found in Painters
viscere the silence was broken.
As has been expected, the Mutual
was the first of the life companies to
show its hand. Cecil Wilcox, State
agent, speaking for the Mutual, was
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