Johnston v. Mutual Reserve Life Insurance

By a stipulation entered into between counsel, eleven actions involving substantially the same question of fact and law were heard at the same time before the court without a jury. These actions are brought by assignees of judgments which were recovered against the defendant in the State of North Carolina. The defendant is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York. The original actions commenced in North Carolina were to recover damages for alleged breach of contracts of insurance entered into between citizens of that State and the defendant. All of these actions…