Farthing v. Sams

Action for personal injuries, filed May 20, 1920, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, wherein plaintiff demanded judgment for twenty-five thousand dollars.

Defendant filed a demurrer to the petition, which was sustained August 30, 1920. Plaintiff declined to plead further, and judgment was entered against him on the second day of September, 1920, from which he appealed to this court.

The petition shows that plaintiff now is, and at all the times mentioned was, a resident of the State of Illinois; that the defendant has been a resident of the State of Missouri since the year 1907.

For…