Bankson v. Mutual Ben. Health & Accident Ass'n

FOURNET, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Lee E. Bank-son to recover from the Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association under a contract of sick and accident insurance issued by the association on August 2, 1932, $100 a month for total disability, plus $50 a month for a period of 90 days during which he was hospitalized, and, in addition, a sum equal to the principal claim during the period of delay in making payment thereof and reasonable attorney fees of $1,000, as a penalty, for the association’s failure to pay his demand within thirty days thereafter without just and reasonable…