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SUPREME COURT OF DAKOTA

Farmers' National Bank of Salem vs. Rasmussen.


trespass. The original trespassers most respond to the ex- tent of the damages. Greenleaf on Evidence, Vol. 2, Redfield's edition, 1868, page 550, and notes and authorities there cited; Sedgwick on the Measure of Damages, 5th edition, 615, 617, 618, Note 1, and authorities.

We find no error in the record. The judgment below is

Affirmed.[1]

JANUARY TERM, 1875,

PRESENT:

Hon. Peter C. Shannon, Chief Justice.

Hon. Jefferson P. Kidder,
Hon. Alanson H. Barnes,
Associate Justices.


Farmers' National Bank of Salem v. Rasmussen.

1. ATTORNEYS FEES: liquidation. A stipulation in a promissory note for the payment of a certain sum as attorney's fees if suit is commenced thereon, is valid, and may be enforced in an action on the note.

Appeal from Clay County District Court.

The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion,

J. L. JoUey, for appellant.

Bartlett Tripp, for appellee.

Kidder, J.—This case comes here on an appeal from the District Court in Clay county, where the same was instituted by the plaintiff upon a promissory note, made and executed

  1. Appealed to and affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, December, 1877.