72 Ind. 525 | Ind. | 1880
— Issue was joined upon a complaint for the recovery of the principal and interest due upon a promissory note executed by the appellant, and held by .the appellee. Trial by jury, verdict and judgment in favor of appellee.
The appellant, in support of his prayer for reversal, urges that the court erred in rendering judgment for attorney’s fees. The counsel argue that, as the complaint contains no allegation as to the value of the attorney’s fees, it was error to include them in the amount of recovery. The decisions of this court settle this question against appellant. In Roberts v. Comer, 41 Ind. 475, it was expressly held that a judgment would not be reversed where attorney’s fees were allowed, although there was no allegation in the complaint stating their value, or making any specific claim for their recovery. In Smiley v. Meir, 47 Ind. 559, it was held that, where the note fixed the amount of the fees, and was set out with the complaint, no other evidence of the value of the fees than that furnished by the note, was necessary. In that case there was no specific allegation of the value of the fees made, nor any direct claim made for their recovery, but the note set out in the complaint contained a clause fixing the rate. In Philips v. Cox, 61 Ind. 345, the holding was, that there was no error in permitting a complaint to be amended so as to claim attorney’s fees, because, as was there said, such an amendment is mere matter of form.
Complaint is made of the ruling admitting the endorsement in evidence. The counsel contend'that there Avas error in admitting this indorsement because the complaint avers that the indorsement to appellee Avas made by Miles & Spald
The appellant argues that the court erred in admitting in evidence the note sued on, because the amount of the note is‘written in these words and figures, “four hund and two and dollars. ’ ’ There would be little of merit in this argument, even if the note contained no other statement of the amount than that written in the body, and there is none at all when it is seen by bare inspection that there are figures unmistakably' exhibiting the amount. If, however,
The appellant’s claim, that there was such misconduct of' the jury as entitles him to a reversal, is not well founded. We have not been shown by counsel any fact tending to prove that the acts complained of in any way prejudiced his cause, nor in looking through the evidence have we onrselves. discovered any. Pratt v. The State, 56 Ind. 179. Judgment affirmed.
Petition for a rehearing overruled.