Talbert v. Northwestern Nat. Ins. Co.

The premises, No. 116 St. Gabriel street, in the city of Baton Rouge, were damaged by fire on the night of October 22, 1923. They were owned, at the time, by plaintiff and were insured in the Northwestern National Insurance Company, Inc., defendant herein, under a policy for $3,000 and in the Westchester Fire Insurance Company of New York under a policy for $5,000. This is a suit for the recovery from the defendant insurance company of its proportion of the damage caused by the fire, together with the statutory penalty for its failure to pay the loss within the period fixed by law.

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