Linn County Bank v. Clifton
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Linn Circuit Court. — Eon. John P. Butler, Judge. (1) The circuit court of Linn county had no jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the action. Such jurisdiction is vested in the probate court. Sec. 22, art. 6, Constitution 1875; Sec. 1674, R. S. 1899; Sec. 34, art. 6, Constitution 1875; Secs. 191, 192, 1753, R. S. 1899; Mt. Olive and St. Louis Coal Co. v. Slevens, 56 Mo.
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Error to Linn Circuit Court. — Eon. John P. Butler, Judge. (1) The circuit court of Linn county had no jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the action. Such jurisdiction is vested in the probate court. Sec. 22, art. 6, Constitution 1875; Sec. 1674, R. S. 1899; Sec. 34, art. 6, Constitution 1875; Secs. 191, 192, 1753, R. S. 1899; Mt. Olive and St. Louis Coal Co. v. Slevens, 56 Mo. App. 107; Hoffman v. Hoffman, 126 Mo. 486; Beekman v. Richardson, 150 Mo. 436; Matson & May v. Pearson, 121 Mo. App. 128; McKee v. Allen, 204 Mo. 675; Korthman v. Markson, 34 Kan. 542; Kelley’s New Missouri…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
This cause was sent and docketed here under a reversed title. We reconstruct the title by transposition as above to agree with our usage and avoid confusion in our reports. When a case comes up on error, by present usage here the title runs the same as the statute prescribes on appeal. [R. S. 1909, sec. 2039.] So, when a defendant is plaintiff in error, it has been found that the word “defendant” creeps by slip into our opinions in a double sense; hence, *206for convenience and to avoid confusion, throughout this opinion we will use the term plaintiff for “defendant in error” and the term…
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