Steamboat Thames v. Erskine
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from the Circuit, Court of St. Louis county. 1st. The court erred in suffering improper evidence to be given to the jury, on the part of the appellees. 2d. In overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial for reasons filed.. Mo. Digest, p. 220, sections 6 and 7; Mo. Digest, p. 220 & 221; McLean administrator of Brock-man, v. Thorp, 4th vol. Mo. Decisions, p. 257; Mo. Digest, p. 221, sections 13 & 15; Mo.
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Appeal from the Circuit, Court of St. Louis county. 1st. The court erred in suffering improper evidence to be given to the jury, on the part of the appellees. 2d. In overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial for reasons filed.. Mo. Digest, p. 220, sections 6 and 7; Mo. Digest, p. 220 & 221; McLean administrator of Brock-man, v. Thorp, 4th vol. Mo. Decisions, p. 257; Mo. Digest, p. 221, sections 13 & 15; Mo. Digest, p. 221, sections 16 and 17. 1st. That the court below committed no error in allowing the deposition of Josiah G. Sanborn, on the part of the plaintiffs, to be read in evidence…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Tompkins, Judge.
Greene Erskine and Stephen Gore brought their action against the Steamboat Thames; the judgment of that court being rendered in their favor, the defendant appeals to this court to reverse that judgment.
On the trial of the cause the plaintiffs offered in evidence a deposition to prove the delivery of a trunk at Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, to the steamboat Thames, to be delivered *214t0 ®rs^ne an(^ ^ore’ ^ie plaintiffs, at St.' Louis in Missouri.
trunk and its contents are the object of the suit. The defendant objected to the reading of the deposition as…
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