Frank v. Corbett

HALL, Justice.

On July 14, 1983, appellee Sandra Louise Frank Corbett recovered a default judgment against appellant Randy Scott Frank for $12,500.00 actual damages plus $5,000.00 in punitive damages in her suit against appellant for one-half the proceeds of an insurance policy obtained by appellant on a house jointly owned by them. The judgment reflects on its face that it is a “no answer” default judgment, reciting that although served with citation appellant “did not file an answer and thus was in default.”

On appellant’s motion after perfection of this appeal, we granted appellant leave to…