INDEPENDENT LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY v. Branton

This court denied the applicant’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals in this case on February 11, 1976. Applicant made a timely motion for reconsideration of this court’s denial of its petition. We have decided, on the applicant’s motion for reconsideration, to vacate this court’s judgment of February 11,1976, and we now enter a judgment granting the applicant’s petition.

Decided March 16, 1976. Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, James E. Humes, II, Albert W. Stubbs, for appellant. Douglas Breault, for appellee.

Pursuant to Rule 36 (c) of this court (effective…