City of Kennett v. Katz Construction Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Bollinger Circuit Court. — How. Peter H. Huck, Judge. The court erred in granting a new trial for "the reason assigned, to-wit: that the court had erred in the trial of said cause in refusing defendant’s instruction number 14 on the measure of damages, (a) Because plaintiff’s instruction number 2, given by tbe court at tbe trial of said cause properly declared the measure of damages applicable to this cause, (b) Because the defendant’s instruction number 14 did…
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Appeal from Bollinger Circuit Court. — How. Peter H. Huck, Judge. The court erred in granting a new trial for "the reason assigned, to-wit: that the court had erred in the trial of said cause in refusing defendant’s instruction number 14 on the measure of damages, (a) Because plaintiff’s instruction number 2, given by tbe court at tbe trial of said cause properly declared the measure of damages applicable to this cause, (b) Because the defendant’s instruction number 14 did not properly declare the measure of damages applicable to this cause and. would have been error- if given. Couch v.…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
This is an appeal from an order granting a new trial. The appellant, the city of Kennett, to be designated herein as the city, brought suit in the circuit court of Dunklin County against the Katz Construction Company and the American Surety Company, to be designated herein respectively as the contractor and the surety company, each a corporation, upon a bond for $18,000 of the former as principal and the latter as surety, given to the city to insure the faithful performance of a contract for furnishing the necessary materials and labor to construct certain lines of sewers in the streets and…
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