Lippman v. Tittmann
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. James A. Seddon, Judge. The only-question which the court has to consider in this appeal is, whether the testimony adduced by the plaintiff tended to prove any fact which should have been submitted to the jury.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. James A. Seddon, Judge. The only-question which the court has to consider in this appeal is, whether the testimony adduced by the plaintiff tended to prove any fact which should have been submitted to the jury. We claim that the evidence offered and admitted very clearly tended to show : (1) That the appellant was under no legal or moral obligation to-support the deceased ; (2) that he did expect compensation for his support and education and expenditures which he incurred for him. The plaintiff did not stand in the relation of loco parentis to…
1Opinion of the CourtRombatxeb, P. J.
Mrs. Ballentine died in 1866, leaving four surviving children of tender age. • Her husband Alexander, being unable to take care <1 them, three of the children were placed in a charitable institution, and the fourth, who *72is the decedent, Wm. Ballentine Becker, then a child in arms, was taken into the family of Wm. Becker, and reared as a child of that family. Thereafter Alexander Ballentine, the father, was killed in a railroad accident, and Wm. H. Thompson was appointed guardian of the persons and curator of the estate of the four children. As such guardian he recovered four thousand dollars,…
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