Barker v. Findley

JEFFREY, C.

This action was begun by J. A. Findley, as plaintiff, against Norman Barker, as defendant, in the district court of Washington county, on four separate promissory notes aggregating the sum of $731.80, principal and interest. The defendant rented law office rooms from plaintiff for a number of years, and the notes were given for past-due rent. Defendant by way of answer admitted executing the notes, but denied that he was indebted to plaintiff by reason of a claim for damages set up in a cross-petition filed with his answer. In his cross-petition he alleged that, during a period…