Kansas City Breweries Co. v. Haffey

Plaintiff, in one count, sued to recover $2568.54, being the aggregate amount of interest claimed to be due on three promissory notes executed by defendant to plaintiff. Said notes on the face bore six per cent per annum. It was conceded that defendant had paid the principal of all three of said notes, so that whether or not there was any interest due is the only question in controversy. (In addition to the answer, defendant set up, byway of counterclaim that he had overpaid plaintiff on the principal of said notes to the extent of $157.50; but, as plaintiff admitted during the trial that…