Sayers v. Craven
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court . — Hon. J. D. Perkins, Judge. (1) There was no testimony on the trial showing the reasonable value of the alleged services rendered by the plaintiff for the defendant in reference to the Shoemaker land; nor was there any testimony whatever, showing or tending to show that the pretended services had any value whatever.
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Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court . — Hon. J. D. Perkins, Judge. (1) There was no testimony on the trial showing the reasonable value of the alleged services rendered by the plaintiff for the defendant in reference to the Shoemaker land; nor was there any testimony whatever, showing or tending to show that the pretended services had any value whatever. The court, therefore, erred in giving the instruction to the jury authorizing a recovery on the first count of plaintiff’s petition and the verdict of the jury giving plaintiff $100 on this count is not supported by the evidence. (2) Evidence of…
1Opinion
*414ON REHEARING.
SMITH, P. J.
At the March term, 1903, of this court an opinion was delivered in this cause ordering an affirmance of the judgment of the trial court which was for plaintiff. A motion for a rehearing was later on sustained. At the present term the cause has been reargued.
The defendant’s contention is that the plaintiff’s instruction which told the jury that if the plaintiff at the request of defendant talked up and advertised the Shoemaker land and used efforts to create an interest in said lands as mining lands, and thereby assisted defendant in making sale thereof, then the…
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- Barr v. City of KansasSupreme Court of Missouri · 1891
- Duke v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1889
- Mabrey v. Cape Girardeau & Jackson Gravel Road Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1902
- Cobb v. St. Louis & Hannibal Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1899
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