Tennessee-Arkansas Gravel Co. v. Harvey

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

On application of plaintiff, and on its showing that we committed an error in our former judgment herein, this rehearing was granted. 147 So. 739. It was restricted solely to the question of attorney’s fees claimed by plaintiff. We held that these fees were not authorized by law, that is, that a road contractor could not be penalized by condemning him to pay the fees of the attorney of a suing creditor simply because he did not, or could not, pay his debts. In this we were in error. Such fees are authorized by section 8 of Act No. 224 of 1918, and were awarded in State v.…