Cleveland & Aurora Mineral Land Co. v. Ross
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. W. M. Robinson, Judge. (1) Competent evidence, which tends to prove or may form a part of the proof of the matters in issue, should not be excluded. 1 Thompson on Trials, sec. 386. (2) The object of judicial investigations is the truth, and the tendency of modern ruling is, under reasonable rules, to exclude nothing that can throw light upon the transaction.
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. W. M. Robinson, Judge. (1) Competent evidence, which tends to prove or may form a part of the proof of the matters in issue, should not be excluded. 1 Thompson on Trials, sec. 386. (2) The object of judicial investigations is the truth, and the tendency of modern ruling is, under reasonable rules, to exclude nothing that can throw light upon the transaction. Coughlin v. Eaeussler, 50 Mo. 128. (3) In trials before juries, the rule is that where there is any evidence, however slight, and whether direct or .inferential, which tends to establish the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
Ejectment for possession of a mining lot numbered 28, of the “Bonanza Tract," being two hundred feet east and west by two hundred and twenty-' *103three feet on the west end north and south, and two hundred and ten feet on the east end, in Lawrence county. Ouster is laid March 25, 1893.
The answer, after a general denial, avers that in September, 1891, with the knowledge, permission, and consent of the then owners, defendants entered the premises to dig for lead and other ore, and in good faith dug and opened shafts, extended and operated drifts therefrom, and have ever since been in possession…
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