Aetna Life Insurance v. J. B. Parker & Co.

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by J. B. Parker & Co. against the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., to recover of the defendant a stipulated indemnity for injuries received by the insured during the life of a certain policy of accident insurance issued by. the company to William Shelvy and which had been assigned by the said Shelvy to the plaintiffs; and as a penalty the further sums of 12 per cent of the amount of the indemnity due under said policy and a reasonable attorney fee which was alleged to be $50; the total amount for which judgment was prayed…