Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Dowdle

250 So.2d 579 (1971)

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corp.

v.

Estelle P. DOWDLE.

7 Div. 780.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 4, 1971.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1971.

London, Yancey, Clark & Allen, and Thomas R. Elliott, Jr., Birmingham, for appellant.

Dortch, Allen, Wright & Wright, and Roy D. McCord, Gadsden, for appellee.

COLEMAN, Justice.

The defendant appeals from a judgment for plaintiff in an action on a policy of insurance on the life of Eddie B. Dowdle who died as the result of a gunshot wound.

Plaintiff is the beneficiary under the policy. The complaint contains one count wherein plaintiff…