Buckles v. Northern Bank

This was a suit upon a promissory note made by the defendants, payable to the order of Clay & Bedford, and assigned to the plaintiff, upon which a judgment was recovered against the defendants, on the 20th day of April, 1871, at the April term of the Logan county circuit court, for the sum of $8586.14 and costs of suit.

The judgment was erroneous, in that it was rendered for the full amount of the note and interest, without the deduction, to which the defendants were entitled, of a certainr amount of taxes paid by them on the land for which the note was given.

The erroneous excess of the…