Court Opinion

ID: 9607252
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:56:47.137945+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:37.801723
License: Public Domain

Pannell, Judge,
dissenting. Regardless of what might be the proper interpretation of the decisions of the Supreme Court in Templeton v. Kennesaw Life &c. Ins. Co., 216 Ga. 770, 773 (119 SE2d 549), and Belch v. Gulf Life Ins. Co., 219 Ga. 823 (136 SE2d 351), it is my opinion that there is evidence to authorize a finding of accidental death in the present case. The testimony of the young lady, as to the occurrence wherein the insured died *469from a bullet wound in his head, that the deceased insured threatened at one time to shoot at the count of five but failed to shoot at the count of five, then put his head next to hers, his left temple against her right temple, said he was going to give her one more chance, he was going to count to three, that during this countdown he kept clicking his fingernail on the trigger and kept saying, “Now, just listen to that now, when my finger touches the trigger, it is going off,” then before the pistol fired she moved her head and the pistol went off at the count of two, is sufficient to authorize a jury to find that he was clicking the trigger when the young lady moved her head, and this movement caused him to unintentionally pull the trigger rather than merely clicking the trigger with his fingernail. Under these facts, the finding of accidental death within the terms of the policy would be authorized.
I am authorized to state that Felton, C. J., concurs in this dissent.