New York Life Insurance Co. v. Herbert

LEVY, Associate Justice.

This was an action brought by Mrs. Melville Cannon Herbert against the New York Life Insurance Company, to recover upon a policy of insurance upon the life of her late husband. The company, though duly cited, did not appear and answer the suit, and a judgment by default was rendered against it on November 1, 1906, for the full amount of the policy of $5000, together with $500 as attorneys’ fees and 12 percent of face of the policy as damages, and interest and costs of suit. The company by writ of error has brought the judgment so obtained to this court for revision,…