104 Iowa 696 | Iowa | 1898
This action was brought to recover seventy-six dollars and thirty-four cents- on certain promissory notes, and judgment was rendered in the justice court for fifty-six dollars and fifty-five cents. On appeal, .in the district court, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the- plaintiff for ninety-three cents, for which amount judgment was entered; and after-wards, on motion of the defendants, all costs were taxed against the plaintiff. This ruling was based on an alleged offer to confess judgment for one dollar and costs in the justice court. The motion was resisted by affidavits tending to show that the plaintiff ivas not present when any offer was made, had no notice thereof, and that none was in fact made. It was supported by affidavits to> the contrary.