Court Opinion

ID: 9828083
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:05:38.940004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:43.371540
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On Motion of Appellants for Rehearing.
When the record was first before us it was contended, and the contention is renewed in the motion, that the judgment against appellants was unauthorized in the absence, as was the case, of a finding by the jury that the consideration for the cancellation and surrender of the ten notes was inadequate. The jury having found that the indebtedness of J. N. Buelin to appellants amounted to only $2,960.82, and there being no evidence that the notes were worth less than their face value, to wit, $4,700, we thought it appeared as a matter of law that the value of the notes was $1,739.18 more than the sum reasonably necessary to discharge J. N. Buelin’s indebtedness to appellants, and that appellants would have had no right to complain had the judgment been against them for that amount instead of for $1,090. We still entertain that view of the matter, and therefore overrule appellants’ contention.
The contention that it was error not to sustain the fourth assignment of error, in which appellants complained that they were “not protected (quoting) in the order of sale on the original payment of $1,500, a part of the consideration paid them for the land,” is renewed in the motion. We thought, and still think, the contention was without merit. The $1,500 represented a part of the purchase price of the land, just as the notes did, and no reason why appellants should have recovered it back was shown. If it should have been added to the $2,960.82 indebtedness of J. N. Buelin, it should also have been added to the amount of the ten purchase-money notes made by appellants, and the difference between the amount of the indebtedness and the value of the notes would still have been $1,739.18.
The motion is overruled.