Coffman v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Missouri
•Jipjieal from, St. Francois Circuit Court. This was a suit commenced before a justice of the peace against A. W. Harrison, agent of the Mississippi Mining and Manufacturing Company, upon the following due bill or note: “ Due, Fiat River Mines, September 7, 1854, Daniel P. Coff-man, twenty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. [Signed] A. W. Harrison, agent for Miss. Mining & Man. Co., by A. B. McCreery, clerk.”
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•Jipjieal from, St. Francois Circuit Court. This was a suit commenced before a justice of the peace against A. W. Harrison, agent of the Mississippi Mining and Manufacturing Company, upon the following due bill or note: “ Due, Fiat River Mines, September 7, 1854, Daniel P. Coff-man, twenty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. [Signed] A. W. Harrison, agent for Miss. Mining & Man. Co., by A. B. McCreery, clerk.” Judgment having been rendered against defendant, an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court. In the Circuit Court, Harrison filed his affidavit denying the execution by himself of the…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
This was an appeal from a justice’s court, and being tried by the court sitting as a jury, and no instructions being asked, any mistake as to the law in finding the verdict can not be inquired into here, as it does not appear what points were made in the court below. It has been repeatedly held, since the present practice act, that trials in the Circuit Court of appeals from a justice of the peace must conform to the practice which prevailed before the enactment of the statute concerning practice now in force, as that act expressly excludes justices’ courts from its operations, except in…
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