Young v. McWaid

I. The plaintiff brought this action before a justice of the peace to recover $78.80 “ for corn sold and delivered to defendant.” On the return day the defendant tendered and paid to the justice “$49.41, as the amount of the debt, and for the further sum of $10.05 as costs, being all the costs in the cause up to the time of the tender.” The tender not being accepted, there was a trial before the justice, and judgment was rendered for plaintiff in the amount of the sum tendered, and against him for all costs made after the tender. The plaintiff appealed to the Circuit Court, where defendant…