CONSOLIDATED UNDER. v. LOYD W. RICHARDSON C. CORP.

No. 7075.

444 S.W.2d 781 (1969)

CONSOLIDATED UNDERWRITERS, Appellant, v. LOYD W. RICHARDSON CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Rehearing Denied September 25, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kleberg, Mobley, Lockett & Weil, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Fischer, Wood, Burney & Nesbitt, Corpus Christi, for appellee.


KEITH, Justice.

The insurer appeals from an award of attorney's fees and expenses incurred in the successful defense of a lawsuit by the insured's own counsel after the insurer had withdrawn from the defense thereof. The reasonableness of the amount of the fee and the expenses was stipulated. We will term this item "defense" expense. The insured also sought attorney's fees incurred in this litigation to collect its fees paid in the first case, but these latter...

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