Court Opinion

ID: 7601076
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 07:01:40.892897+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:48.125054
License: Public Domain

On the original appeal in this case, Gillespie v. Safeco LifeIns. Co., 533 So.2d 521 (Ala. 1988), I was of the opinion that the policy had been "surrendered" as a matter of law. I dissented then, and again when the case was appealed the second time, when this Court reversed the trial court's judgment based on a directed verdict in favor of Safeco. Gillespie v. SafecoLife Ins. Co., 565 So.2d 150, 152 (Ala. 1990). A jury has now found what I thought from the first was clear, as a matter of law, that the insurance policy was "surrendered."