20 Iowa 520 | Iowa | 1866
There is no question that, by the terms of these two acts, the limitation of nine months for commencing suit to enforce the lien, did not begin to run until after McCaddon’s discharge from the military service, which was in October, 1863, and therefore, by the terms of these acts, if they are valid, the action is not barred.
In this case the plaintiff claimed in his petition a much
But the plaintiffs’ counsel ask that in case we shall hold the action of the District Court, in this particular, to- be erroneous, that they be permitted to remit the excess of the judgment over the verdict.
This will be allowed. The judgment of the District Court will therefore be so modified as to make it for the sum returned by the jur}'- — two hundred and thirty dollars; with six per cent interest from that date; and the judgment so modified will be affirmed at the costs of the appellee.
Affirmed.