Overstreet v. Jones

Roy Jones, doing business as Capitol Hill Grocery,, sued' H. L. Overstreet in a justice -of-the peace court for “the sum of $95 for promissory notes, including $73.29 principal, $3.50 interest, and $18.32 attorney’s fee.” Overstreet filed an answer denying “that he at any time executed the six notes upon which plaintiff bases his cause of action.” This was verified. Judgment was for plaintiff, and defendant perfected an appeal to the court of common pleas of Oklahoma county.

After the transcript of appeal was filed in the appellate court and stood for trial de novo (section 1022, O.S. 1931, 39…