Tolbert v. Standard Acc. Ins. Co.

GRAVES, Justice.

Appellee, Standard Accident Insurance Company, plaintiff below, instituted this suit in the District Court of Harris County against W. F. Warfield & Company, Inc.; G. R. Abney, Administrator with the will annexed of W. F. Warfield, deceased; and Winnie Tolbert and husband, J. R. Tolbert, defendants below, seeking to recover on a general contract of indemnity.

The trial was before a jury, though only the question of what was a reasonable attorney’s fee to that date for the plaintiff was submitted on a special-issue to the jury, and judgment was entered, on June 29, 1948, in…