Court Opinion

ID: 7037413
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 06:46:56.368953+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:11:12.643547
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Elliott, C. J.
— Bates sued Barnes, the appellant, for the value of a quantity of corn stored by the former with the latter as a warehouseman. The complaint also contained a paragraph for corn sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the- defendant.
Answer, 1. A general denial. 2. Alleging a settlement between the parties, in which the defendant was found to be indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $82 19; that the defendant, subsequently, and before the commencement of *16the suit, tendered to the plaintiff the sum of $101 50, which the latter refused to receive, which -amount was paid into court. The plaintiff filed a reply in denial of the second paragraph of the answer.
A jury trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff' for $193 28. Motion for a new trial overruled and judgment.
The first objection urged to the proceedings in the Common Pleas Court is, that no reply was filed to the third paragraph of the answer. The record does not show that the answer contained a third paragraph, to which a reply was requii-ed. True, it appears that the defendant filed with the answer a statement numbered “ third” in which he admitted that he was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $82 19, with interest from the 18th of July, 1863, for which, and for all costs accimed, he- offered to confess judgment. It was not an answer, but an offer to confess judgment for the amount named, and formed no part of the pleadings in the case; and as the plaintiff' did not accept it, no further notice of it by him was necessary.
An exception is also taken to the judgment, which is as follows: It is therefore considered by the court, “that the plaintiff* do have and recover of and from the said defendant the sum of one hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-eight cents,” (the amount found by the jury,) “together with his costs and charges herein, and that the sum of one hundred and one dollars and fifty cents has been paid into court on this judgment, by way of tender paid in by said defendant.” "We see nothing in the judgment of which the appellant can complain. He admitted himself indebted to the plaintiff below in the sum of $101 50, and paid that sum into court. The jury found that he was indebted to the plaintiff' in the sum of $193 28, a sum larger than the amount so paid into court. The court z’endered the judgment for the whole amount found by the jury, but at the same time, in effect, credited it with the amount paid into court by the appellant. This, if not strictly *17formal, was at least substantially correct, and leaves no ground for the appellant to complain.
J. C. and J. Applegate, for appellant.
The judgment is affirmed, with ten per cent, damages and costs.