Howard v. Wilson

The defendant prevailed below, the circuit court having first sustained a motion to strike out a portion of plaintiff’s petition and then sustained a general demurrer' thereto. The petition is as follows: (Formal parts omitted.)

“Plaintiff states that he is and at all times herein mentioned was engaged in the banking bnsines's at Billings, Missouri, and also engaged in farming and stock raising and handling fine stock and that he was and now is owner of a certain bull calf which defendant desired to buy from plaintiff and which defendant priced to defendant and offered to sell to defendant for…