Reppy v. Jefferson County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Second District Court. I. Plaintiff claims that the agreement with him can be proven by parol. (28 Mo. 586 ; 84 Mo. 883-8.) It was not a judicial proceeding. Directing an index to be made was no adjudication.
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Error to Second District Court. I. Plaintiff claims that the agreement with him can be proven by parol. (28 Mo. 586 ; 84 Mo. 883-8.) It was not a judicial proceeding. Directing an index to be made was no adjudication. It’was a mere ministerial act, and need not be made a matter of record at all. )Yhen the agreement was made between Reppy and the judges on the bench, this was an end of the matter so far as Reppy was concerned, and he could not be affected by any act of the cleric or the court as to whether it was made rightly or wrongly, or made at all. It was not like a proceeding between two…
1Opinion of the CourtBliss, Judge
The plaintiff claims to have been employed by the judges of the County Court to make a full direct and inverted index to the land records of the county of Jefferson, at the price of fifteen cents for each name; that he has performed the work, but has received only $500 upon the compensation, and that the balance of his bill, amounting to some $2,100, the County Court refused to pay.
Defendant’s counsel first contend that the rejection of the claim is a judgment; that the plaintiff is concluded by it, and can not prosecute in the Circuit Court. This claim is wholly untenable. The County Court,…
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