Easley v. Easley
Easley v. Easley
Opinion of the Court
The- appellants, plaintiffs in the ease, sued th.e appellees to recover on eight notes for $109 each, due one year after date, respectively, from October 15, 1915. The notes were purchase-money notes for land, and a vendor’s lien was retained to secure payment of same. It was alleged that the first three notes that had matured October 15, 1916, October 15, 1917, and October 15, 1918, had been paid except as to a balance of $80 with interest. The suit was fUed February 16, 1920. The defendants answered that the sum of money now due and unpaid, together with all interest payable, amounts to $205, wjiich sum was tendered to plaintiffs on October 15, 1919, when the note of that year was due and before commencement of suit,, and the payment refused, and which sum is now tendered in court.
The case was tried before the court without a jury, and judgment was entered for defendants. The court’s findings are: (1) That the defendants are indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum of $205 “for two years’ interest on the series of notes and for the $100 note due October 15, 1919; (2) “that at the date the defendants tendered to the plaintiffs the sum of $205 that was the whole amount then due;” and (3) “that said sum. of $205 has been tendered into court in satisfaction of the amount due.” The court (1) refused to foreclose the vendor’s lien on notes not due, because there was no default of payment in any of the notes, (2) refused to allow plaintiffs attorney’s fees on notes, and (3) taxed cost of suit against plaintiffs because of tender to them by defendants of the correct sum due before suit was filed.
There is evidence to support the court’s finding that the $80 in evidence had been paid, and the first assignment is overruled.
Judgment affirmed.
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