State ex rel. Jackson County v. Chick
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. H. Sloven, -Judge. (1) Proof by plaintiff’s witness Seidlitz that some of the defendants, when testifying at a former trial of this cause, admitted having signed the bond sued on, gave these defendants no right to prove another part of their testimony on a different subject, by this witness on his cross-examination, to wit, that they also testified at the former trial, that the penal sum of the bond had been changed from $10,000…
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. H. Sloven, -Judge. (1) Proof by plaintiff’s witness Seidlitz that some of the defendants, when testifying at a former trial of this cause, admitted having signed the bond sued on, gave these defendants no right to prove another part of their testimony on a different subject, by this witness on his cross-examination, to wit, that they also testified at the former trial, that the penal sum of the bond had been changed from $10,000 to $5,000, and the court erred in allowing defendants to mate such proof. Lyons v. Botss, 42 Mo. App. 606; Waltner v.…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
This is a suit upon the official bond of M. S. Burr, late clerk of the county court of Jackson county. The action was begun on the eleventh of May, 1894, against the sureties only. The principal was not joined as a defendant.
The petition contains twelve counts. It is alleged therein that the county of Jackson, at whose relation and to whose use the suit is prosecuted, was, at all the times mentioned in the petition, and still is, an *652organized county of the State of Missouri; that Burr was elected clerk of the county court of said county, on the fourth of November, 1890, for a term of four…
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- Walker v. OwenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1883
- Smith v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1865
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- Whetstone v. ShawSupreme Court of Missouri · 1879
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