Johnson v. Continental Insurance Co. of New York

This action was brought in the chancery court of Knox "county on an insurance policy to recover. $1,500, the amount of insurance on the property described in the policy. There was a decree entered in favor of the complainant for the amount of the policy and interest, *601and from tbis an appeal was prayed and prosecuted to this court, and errors have here been assigned in behalf of the defendant. The complainant also assigned errors on the ground that the chancellor failed to allow to him the twenty-five per cent, penalty provided , by statute in cases where the defenses are frivolous.

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