Mechanics & Traders Bank v. Andrus

This suit is on a promissory note against the drawer and endorsers. They did not appear, and a judgment by default was made final against them. In writing up this judgment, by some oversight, it was rendered for the sum of two hundred and forty dollars, with interest and costs of protest, when the demand and note were for three hundred and forty dollars. The error, it is said, was not discovered until the court had adjourned, and this appeal is taken to correct it. The evidence in the record proves clearly, that the plaintiff is entitled to recover three hundred and forty dollars, with…