Bowman v. United States Life Insurance

Birdsong, Judge.

On motion for rehearing, the original opinion of this court is withdrawn and vacated, and the following is substituted therefor.

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgments to the defendants U. S. Life Insurance Co. and Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Co.

Appellant Virginia Bowman was severely injured in a fall in October 1974, while her husband James Bowman was employed at Marietta Toyota. Mrs. Bowman’s injuries were extensive. Initially she was a quadriplegic. By 1982, she remained a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair.

At the time Mrs. Bowman was injured, Marietta…