Adams v. State Auto. Ins. Ass'n of Des Moines, Iowa

BROADDUS, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment for $4,542.12 in favor of plaintiff, Bobbie J. Adams, in an action upon a policy of collision insurance. The judgment includes an attorney’s fee of $750 based upon a finding of defendant’s 'vexatious refusal to pay 'plaintiff.

On November 1, 1952, a 1952 G.M.C. tractor belonging to plaintiff, a resident of Kirksville, Missouri, was involved in a collision in Illinois, one mile east of the Chain of Rocks Bridge near St. Louis, Missouri. Prior thereto, on August 11, 1952, defendant executed and delivered to' plaintiff the policy of…