Barnes v. Wright

This was an action by the appellees against the appellant upon a promissory note.

The defendant was duly brought into court by the service of a summons, and there was judgment against him by default. The note stipulated for the payment of attorney’s fees, if suit should be brought thereon, and it was averred in the complaint that the attorney’s fees were of the reasonable value of forty dollars. The j udgment was rendered for a little over *294ten dollars too much, adding the forty dollars, for attorney’s fees, to the principal and interest of the note. But there were no steps taken in the court…