Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Arkansas, Inc. v. Kizziar

George K. Cracraft, Judge.

The appellant, Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Arkansas, Inc., appeals from an award of attorney’s fee against it in the amount of $20,000 pursuant to provisions of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 66-3238 (Repl. 1980), asserting that the award was excessive. Appellees, Kizziars, cross-appeal stating that the award was inadequate.

The appellees were engaged in an egg production business in Hot Spring County, as a part of which they maintained two separate chicken houses. In January of 1978, during a severe winter storm accompanied by substantial amounts of snow and other…