Georgia Life & Health Insurance v. Sewell

Bell, Presiding Judge.

Defendant enumerates error upon the following portion of the court’s charge to the jury: “If you should find from all the evidence that for all practical purposes, the plaintiff,. Alvin Ray Sewell, has lost the entire sight in his left eye, then this shall amount to the loss of the entire sight of one eye as set forth in the policy.” The question presented is of first impression in Georgia although decisions on the point are available from other jurisdictions.

To recover under a policy provision of the kind in question, loss of sight in the literal sense of absolute…