Thompson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Platte Circuit Court. — Hon. Geo. W. Dunn, Judge. The motion for a new trial should have been sustained. The objection to the non-joinder of Eield was taken at the proper time and in the proper manner. Little v. Harrington, 71 Mo. 390 ; Seip v. Tilghman, 28 Kas. 289.
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
This was an action commenced before á justice of the peace, to recover damages for injury done to a crop of ungathered corn. The plaintiff recovered judgment before the justice, and the defendant appealed to the circuit court, where, on trial anew, the plaintiff introduced testimony tending to prove that during the crop season of 1878 he cultivated in corn a part of George W. Field’s farm; that Field was to have one-half of the corn, when gathered, as rent; that during the months of September and October of that year, while the corn was standing in the field, un-gathered and undivided, hogs…
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