First National Bank v. Kelso
First National Bank v. Kelso
Opinion of the Court
Action on a promissory note for the sum of $2,000, besides interest, dated April 1, 1893, payable three months after date, executed by appellant in favor of the respondent.d The complaint was filed October 12, 1893, and contained, among other 'allegations, an averment to the effect that no part of the principal sum or the interest mentioned in the note had been paid. This allegation was denied in the answer, and the defendant also pleaded that the time of payment had been extended by written agreement of the parties. It appears from the bill of exceptions that the controverted fact at the trial was whether the plaintiff had given to the defendant the extension of time pleaded by him in his answer. The court found in favor of the plaintiff, and rendered judgment in his favor. The defendant moved for a new trial, which was denied, and he has appealed.
One of the grounds urged in the motion for a new trial is the insufficiency of evidence to sustain the decision of the court, and the specification of this insufficiency is as follows: “The evidence is insufficient to justify the third finding of
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- FIRST NAT. BANK OF SOUTH BEND v. KELSO
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- Appeal.—An Assignment of Error, on Motion for a New Trial, that the “evidence is insufficient to justify the third finding of fact, in that there is no evidence to show that there is due and owing plaintiff” a certain sum, is insufficient to question on appeal the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain such finding that no part of the principal has heen paid except a certain sum.