Banister v. Campbell

COOPER, C.

This action was brought to recover upon two judgments, rendered by a justice of the peace in the city of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri.

Plaintiff! recovered judgment, from which defendant appeals. The record shows that the defendant, as a defense to the judgments, alleged affirmatively in his answer that the judgments were procured in the justice court, in the state of Missouri, upon two certain promissory notes, which notes had been by defendant fully paid at the time the judgments were procured; that although the said notes had been so paid, the holder thereof had kept them,…