Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. v. Gordy

Sam RobiNson, Associate Justice.

The issues here are whether the trial court erred in allowing an attorney’s fee and 12 per cent penalty, as provided by statute-(Ark. Stat. § 66-514) where the plaintiff recovered on the disability feature of three policies of insurance, and whether the attorney’s fee allowed is excessive.

During the years 1916 and 1917, the appellant insurance company issued to appellee, Victory G. Gordy, three policies of insurance, each providing, among other things, $100 per year disability benefits to the insured in the event he became totally and permanently disabled under…