Court Opinion

ID: 3667856
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:17:19.730716+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:16.924634
License: Public Domain

This is an action on a note under seal for $297.27, of date 23 August, 1913, secured by a mortgage, which the plaintiff alleges was executed by the defendant to J. J. Darby, and that it was transferred by indorsement to the plaintiff bank for value before maturity.
The defendants denied the execution of the note and the transfer to the plaintiff, and alleged the execution of a note to said Darby on 28 September, 1912, for $315, as to which note they pleaded payment.
They further alleged that they have never executed any note or mortgage to Darby except the note of 28 September, 1912, and did not plead payment of the note sued on.
The jury returned the following verdict:
"1. Was the note and mortgage described in the complaint executed by defendants, Joseph W. Harriss and wife, as alleged? Answer: `Yes.'
"2. Was said mortgage and note assigned to plaintiff for value and before maturity? Answer: `Yes.'
"3. If not, what sum, if any, is defendant, Joseph W. Harriss, indebted to plaintiff? And it being agreed between counsel for plaintiff and defendant that if the first issues should be answered `Yes,' that the amount due is $297.27, with interest from 23 August, 1913, until paid."
Judgment was rendered accordingly, and the defendant appealed.
The pleadings raise two issues, one as to the execution of the note of $297.27, of date 23 August, 1913, by the defendants to *Page 239 
Darby, and the other its transfer to the plaintiff bank, and as no exception relates to either of these issues, the judgment must be affirmed.
The evidence of the defendant, excluded by the court, was an offer to prove that he had paid the note of September, 1912, and the receipts, which were not admitted in evidence, antedated the note sued on, all of the evidence tending to the conclusion that the defendant has settled the note of 1912, and has paid two other notes of $75 and $57.50 executed by them, and have paid nothing on the note in controversy.
They could not well claim payment of a note which they denied executing in the pleadings, and on the witness stand, and when, as stated in the judgment, it was "agreed between counsel for plaintiff and defendant that if the first issue should be answered `Yes,' that the amount due is $297.27, with interest from 23 August, 1913, until paid."
No error.