Foster v. Jackson & Clayton

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an action brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant on two promissory notes. At the trial of the case the defendant withdrew her plea, and there being no issuable defense filed on oath, the court awarded judgment against the defendant for the sum of $962 50,' principal, and $167 00 for interest, to the awarding of which judgment the defendant excepted on the ground that the court erred in awarding a judgment for more than $20 00, without the intervention of a jury, and the case was brought up to this court for review on a writ of error.

When the case was…