Cooper v. Barker

The record in this case recites that, on a day named, there was filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis a transcript from the office of Thomas Campbell, Esq., a justice of the peace within and for the city of St. Louis, in a certain cause wherein J. W. Cooper is plaintiff and Charles F. Barker is defendant. Then follows a recital of the filing of a bill of exceptions in the circuit’ court, and then the bill of exceptions itself. But the transcript nowhere, either in the bill of exceptions or out of it, embodies the statement of claim or transcript of…