Irwin v. Life & Casualty Insurance Co. of Tennessee Inc.

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Cases Nos. 16402 and 16403 are identical and will be decided together. The pleas and answers present only one main question, and that is whether or not equity will grant the relief prayed, which includes judgment for principal and interest and in addition thereto ten percent of the total debt as attorney’s fees, after the petitioner has failed, due to negligence, to collect fire-insurance policies, which it held as collateral and which aggregate more than the amount of the debt and which became payable more than four months before…