Doggett v. Blanke
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. James E. Withbow, Judge. The court erred in permitting defendant’s counsel in his opening statement to the jury to state that when plaintiff moved out of the house she carried away part of the building, and that plaintiff’s cause of action was an offset to a claim of defendant against her. Sherman v. Lockwood, 26 Mo.
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Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. James E. Withbow, Judge. The court erred in permitting defendant’s counsel in his opening statement to the jury to state that when plaintiff moved out of the house she carried away part of the building, and that plaintiff’s cause of action was an offset to a claim of defendant against her. Sherman v. Lockwood, 26 Mo. App. 403. Defendant having failed to file in the justice’s court a counter-claim, the admission of evidence in -the circuit court that plaintiff had carried away from the premises andirons, brackets, window shades and screens…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
Suit begun before a justice of the peace upon the following statement of account:
“J. A. Blanks, Dr. to Mrs. Grace M. Doggett.
To amount assumed and promised to pay:
Policy No. 325,265................................$ 10.50
Policy No. 3,651 ................................. 10.50
Policy No. 8,700................................. 14.00
Policy No. 6,002................:................. 17.50
Water License...................................... 10.00 $62.50.”
Judgment before the justice was recovered by the ■plaintiff, from which defendant appealed to the circuit court, where upon a trial de novo he…
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