Sherman v. Nixon

The appellees sued the appellant on a promissory note for five hundred dollars, made on the 6th day of November, 1865, payable on or before the 25th day of December, 1867, with interest from date, admitting, in the complaint, that he had paid one hundred dollars of the amount thereof. Judgment by default was rendered on the 27th day of July, 1869, for one hundred and five dollars and eighty-three cents. On the 6th day of August, 1869, which was during the same term of the court, the defendant moved the court to set aside the default, and in his affidavit stated that he had paid oil the note…