Case ID: cow_1/html/0115-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Page against Cady.
    
      Certiorari from a Justice’s Court.
    sjt*“a ^ei-dict for §10, with interest from gUCh a day, may compute and rendei? judgment for both that and the principal.
    In assumpsit, by Cady against Page, for $10 lent. The i ury found a verdict for the plaintiff, for ten dollars, with J 7 T . ■interest, from the 140 day of January, 1817. 1 he Justice computed the interest, amounting to $1,34, and added it to the principal sum, making $11,34, for which he gave judgment; and now this was objected here, as one cause why the judgment should be reversed.
    
      J. Vanderpoel, for the plaintiff in error.
    
      E. Williams, for the defendant.
   Per Curiam.

The finding of the jury was certain. The calculation of interest was a mere, clerical act. The result of the calculation may be presumed to have been submitted to, and approved of, by the jury. It is as though they had found $10 principal, and $1,34 interest. Such a finding would clearly warrant a judgment for $11,34.

Judgment affirmed.