INTERSTATE LIFE &c. CO. v. WILLIAMSON

22581.

220 Ga. 323 (1964)

138 S.E.2d 668

INTERSTATE LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY v. WILLIAMSON.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 13, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nall, Miller, Cadenhead & Dennis, Theodore G. Frankel, Thomas A. Rice, for plaintiff in error.

Ernest Bostick, Grubbs, Prosser & Burke, Jordan H. Prosser, contra.


ALMAND, Justice.

The following questions have been certified to us from the Court of Appeals:

"1. Where at the expiration of sixty days after a demand by an insured for the amount claimed to be due under an insurance policy the insurance company knows of no good reason for refusing to pay the claim, does a defense later discovered and made, on the trial of the case, going far enough to show probable cause for making such defense vindicate the insurer's refusal...

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