Court Opinion

ID: 8264726
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-16 15:59:35.986254+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:18.292549
License: Public Domain

BLAND, P. J.
The action is on an express money order for one dollar in which no time for payment is stated. No demand for payment had been made on defendant prior to the commencement of the suit, which Avas begun before a justice of the peace. When summons Avas served on defendant it appeared before the justice and tendered him one dollar, the amount of the order and the sum sued for. The justice declined to receive the tender, Avhereupon defendant filed a written offer tendering the amount sued for. Plaintiff refused to accept the tender and continued the prosecution of the suit. In due course the cause reached the circuit court where on the pleadings and evidence the court, sitting as a jury, rendered judgment for plaintiff for one dollar and adjudged that he pay the costs. Plaintiff appealed from this judgment to this court. His contention is that he was entitled to recover his costs and interest from the date of the order, notwithstanding he had not presented it to defendant for payment, or made any demand for payment before the commencement of this suit. The order was not payable on any particular date, hence it was payable on demand, and demand of payment was necessary to entitle plaintiff to interest. Defendant tendered the amount of the order on the first demand made, to-Avit, Avhen notified of the commencement of the suit and was entitled to recover its costs, under the provisions of section 1575, Revised Statutes 1899.
The judgment is affirmed.
All concur.