Hall v. National Surety Corporation

(After stating the foregoing facts.) We do not think that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the paragraphs of the petition asking for the recovery of attorney’s fees, in addition to the penal sum stipulated in the bond. Section 56-706 of the Code, allowing the “holder” of an insurance policy to recover, in addition to the sum named in the policy, reasonable attorney’s fees, under certain conditions, is shown, by the language employed in the section, not to be applicable to the facts of this case. Likewise, National Surety Corporation v. Gatlin, 192 Ga. 293 (15 S. E. 2d, 180),…