Gillion v. Alabama Forestry Ass'n

The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in entering a summary judgment for the defendants on the plaintiff's claims alleging breach of contract, fraud, and bad faith. The plaintiff claims that she showed a genuine issue of material fact as to whether she was entitled to recover under her deceased husband's life insurance policy, thereby defeating the defendants' motion for summary judgment.

The evidence before the trial court tended to show the following. Before his death in December 1987, Joseph Horace Gillion had owned and managed timberland in Coffee and Crenshaw Counties,…