Churchill v. . Brooklyn Life Insurance Co.

In this action the plaintiff, at Fall Term, 1882, of the Superior Court of Greene, recovered judgment against the defendant company by default, for want of an answer, for the full amount of his demand, which judgment was afterwards modified in form and made interlocutory, subject to an inquiry of damages before the jury, which ruling was affirmed on appeal to this court. Churchill v. Ins. Co., 88 N. C., 205.

At a subsequent term the damages were assessed, and from the judgment rendered therefor the defendant entered an appeal to this court, the amount of the undertaking was fixed at fifty…