Commercial Casualty Insurance Co. v. Mathews

James M. Mathews sued Commercial Casualty Insurance Company on an accident insurance policy. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff of $1500, together with further sums representing 7 per cent, interest, 13% per cent, as penalty for bad faith, and attorney’s fees of $150, for refusing to pay, all of which was approved by the court, and judgment was accordingly rendered. That judgment was affirmed by this court on December 3, 1939. 61 Ga. App. 358 (6 S. E. 2d, 173). On January 30, 1940, during the November, 1939, term of the trial court, the insurance company filed a motion to…