Stiles v. Lambert

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

In the proceedings below the plaintiff sued the defendant on a promissory note which the plaintiff, as endorser, had paid upon defendant’s failure to do so.

The defendant filed pleas of the general issue, and pleas of setoff and recoupment claiming $4,800 by virtue of advance rent paid by the defendant to the plaintiff.

Issue was thereupon joined and after submission of the evidence to the court without the intervention of a jury, judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant in the amount of $842.

The plaintiff-appellant’s motion for a new trial being overruled,…