DeGrendele Motors, Inc. v. Reeder

GEORGE P. ADAMS, Special Commissioner.

Plaintiff-appellant seller, DeGrendele Motors, Inc., sued defendant-respondent buyer, Ralph Reeder, in a magistrate court of St. Louis County, Missouri, to recover *432on a check given plaintiff by defendant for some repairs on a car which plaintiff sold him. The prayer of a counterclaim filed by defendant, based on breach of warranty, was in excess of the magistrate court jurisdiction and the cause was certified to the Circuit Court of St. Louis County under the provisions of Section 517.240(2) RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S.

In the Circuit Court plaintiff recovered…