Court Opinion

ID: 9593400
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:22:18.124135+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:21.050536
License: Public Domain

Almand, Justice,
dissenting. In the cases of Templeton v. Kennesaw Life &c. Ins. Co., 216 Ga. 770 (119 SE2d 549) and Belch v. Gulf Life Ins. Co., 219 Ga. 823 (136 SE2d 351), whether the insured met his death by accident or suicide was held to be a question for the jury, there being evidence to support either theory. These cases are not authority for the proposition that in no case can it ei^er be held that the evidence demanded a finding of death by suicide. I do not construe the majority opinion or the dissenting opinion of the Court of Appeals or the majority opinion of the Supreme Court as so holding, but on the contrary, the decision in both courts is based on the question of whether there was any conflict in the evidence as to whether the death of the insured resulted from accident or suicide. Being of the opinion that the evidence shows without conflict that the *307insured’s death resulted from self-destruction, I dissent from the judgment.