Button v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

The plaintiff sued the defendant before a justice of the peace.

The complaint was that the defendant had killed plaintiff’s milch cow, worth forty dollars.

The plaintiff had a judgment before the justice, from which the defendant appealed to the Circuit Court. The defendant filed a motion in the Circuit Court to rule the plaintiff to give security for costs, upon the ground that since the judgment before the justice the plaintiff had become a non-resident of the State. This motion was overruled, and this action of the court is assigned for error. This point is settled in favor of the plaintiff…