Bergerson v. General Insurance Co. of America

This is an action on a fire insurance policy. There a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $2700, interest in the sum of $366.97, together with a penalty of $270 and attorney’s fee of $750 for vexatious refusal to pay. Defendant has appealed.

The facts show that on February 9, 1933, John E. Miller of the firm of Johnson & Miller, insurance brokers applied to H. E. Clark & Company, a corporation (the latter being the agent in Kansas City for the defendant, whose main office was in Seattle, Washington,) for a policy of fire insurance, in the sum of $3000, upon household goods…