Waddingham v. Hulett
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court. — Hon. Elijah Robinson, Judge. (1) It is always proper to show that a witness is-interested in the result of the suit. And the appellant should have been allowed to read the deeds in evidence-to show that the witnesses, John and Prank Hulett, were the owners of the lands out of which any judgment in appellant’s favor would necessarily have been collected.
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Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court. — Hon. Elijah Robinson, Judge. (1) It is always proper to show that a witness is-interested in the result of the suit. And the appellant should have been allowed to read the deeds in evidence-to show that the witnesses, John and Prank Hulett, were the owners of the lands out of which any judgment in appellant’s favor would necessarily have been collected. R. S. 1879, sec. 4010. • (2) The fact that defendant voluntarily conveyed all his property, shortly after the-alleged settlement, together with the fact that he did not deny, and was adjudged to have made…
1Opinion of the CourtBrace, J.
This was an action commenced by attachment in the circuit court of Audrain county. The petition contained two counts, the first upon an account for money loaned, money had and received, laid out and expended, and for labor performed, amounting to the sum of §3,505.16; the second was for board furnished defendant, and two boys, from November, 1868, to the year, 1880, at twenty dollars per month, respectively, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of §7,925. The defendant filed a plea in abatement, but afterwards withdrew the same. Judgment was rendered sustaining the writ, and defendant…
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