LaSalle Fire Insurance v. Jenkins

The only question for determination here is whether the statute allowing recovery of penalty and attorney’s fee for loss under a fire insurance policy is applicable to the case at bar, in which an automobile was destroyed by fire, the policy herein insuring said automobile against damage or loss by fire.

Suit was brought for damages for destruction by fire of an automobile belonging to appellee, which had been insured by appellant company, and judgment was rendered for the amount sued for with a 12 per cent, penalty and an attorney’s fee of $100.

It is contended for reversal that the statute…