McAllister v. Barnes
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Scotland Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. The court erred in excluding evidence tending to prove custom and usage of merchants of Memphis, Missouri, and members of the firm of T. S. Wise & Co. Cayton v. Harding, 27 Mo. 536 ; Edgell r. Manqueen, 8 Mo. App. 71; Roble v. Metcalf, 20 Mo. App. 361; Ackley v. Stochlin, 56 Mo. 558 ; Thompson v. Riggs, 5 Wall. 679; Renner ¶. Bank, 9 Wheat. 582 ; Cadwell v. Scott, 54 N. H. ; Ins. v. Bennett, 13 Am.
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Appeal from the Scotland Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. The court erred in excluding evidence tending to prove custom and usage of merchants of Memphis, Missouri, and members of the firm of T. S. Wise & Co. Cayton v. Harding, 27 Mo. 536 ; Edgell r. Manqueen, 8 Mo. App. 71; Roble v. Metcalf, 20 Mo. App. 361; Ackley v. Stochlin, 56 Mo. 558 ; Thompson v. Riggs, 5 Wall. 679; Renner ¶. Bank, 9 Wheat. 582 ; Cadwell v. Scott, 54 N. H. ; Ins. v. Bennett, 13 Am. Dec. 109-118; Canseroort v. Williams, 14 Wend. 139 ; Lawson on Usages and Customs, 121, 122, 180; Id. 485, sec. 248; Waterman on…
1Opinion of the CourtRombauer, P. J.
This is a suit upon an account for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiffs are assignees of the account, which the defendant originally contracted with T. S. *671Wise & Co., a firm of retail grocers in Memphis, Missouri, consisting of T. S. Wise, James Penny and Abram Wise, and one Dud Webber as silent partner. The defense interposed was payment.
Upon the trial of the cause before a jury, the plaintiffs recovered judgment and the errors assigned by the defendant appealing ar e that the court excluded proper evidence offered by him, gave erroneous instructions offered by the plaintiffs, and…
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- Tuttle v. HoagSupreme Court of Missouri · 1870
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