COPPAGE v. FIREMEN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 16894.

379 F.2d 621 (1967)

Isa COPPAGE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FIREMEN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Watson, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant, Laughlin, Watson, Garthright & Halle, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel.

Henry H. Hancock, Memphis, Tenn., for appellee, Farris, Hancock & Mitchell, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel.

Before EDWARDS and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges, and BATTISTI, District Judge.


BATTISTI, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury's finding that appellant Fireman's Fund Insurance Company acted in bad faith in failing to settle within policy limits a personal injury claim which one Olivette Veasley had made against its insured, appellee Isa Coppage. Appellant urges that there was no evidence offered from which a jury could reasonably conclude that it had acted in bad faith and, therefore, the District Judge erred in...

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