Lyles v. Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Co

• Decision Date: 14 June 1938
• Docket Number: 1860
• Parties: Hiram LYLES v. SPRINGFIELD FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO
• Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana — District of US

182 So. 183

Hiram LYLES v. SPRINGFIELD FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO

No. 1860

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 14, 1938

Appeal from Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Beauregard; Mark C. Pickrel, Judge.

Hawthorn, Stafford & Pitts, of Alexandria, for appellant.

A. R. Lecompte, of DeRidder, for appellee.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

For the reasons this day assigned in this consolidated case with the case of Hiram Lyles v. National Liberty Insurance Co. of America, La.App., 182 So. 181, it is ordered that the judgment appealed from be amended by the allowance of twelve per cent damages on the principal sum or face of the policy, and the further sum of $ 150 as attorney's fees, together with legal interest on the face of the policy from judicial demand until paid; and as thus amended, the judgment is affirmed, all at the cost of defendant-appellant.