Tomlinson v. Camel City Motors, Inc.

WELLS, Judge.

Lawyers Surety assigns error to the order requiring it to pay the treble damages of $10,379.16 because there was no finding in any order of the trial court entered in this cause of a violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1 or that it was responsible for more than compensatory damages. Insofar as this appeal attempts to attack the default judgment entered against defendants Camel City and Johnson, we note that while a surety has a limited right to appeal from a judgment against a principal, see 4 Am. Jur. 2d Appeal and Error § 200 (1962), Lawyers Surety did not appeal from the…