Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield Railway Co. v. Carlisle
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Henry Circuit Coicrt. — Hon. J. B. Gantt, Judge. No motion for a new trial was necessary. The error complained of appears on the face of the record.
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Appeal from Henry Circuit Coicrt. — Hon. J. B. Gantt, Judge. No motion for a new trial was necessary. The error complained of appears on the face of the record. Bagby v. Emerson, 79 Mo. 139; Blag el r>. Murdoch, 65 Mo. 522; Parher v. Waugh, 34 Mo. 340; Bruce v. Vogel, 38 Mo: 100. The object of a motion for new trial is to call the attention of the trial court to errors committed during the progress of the trial, in order that the court may have a chance to correct such errors. In this case there was no trial; the court overruled appellant’s motion demanding a jury, and proceeded to render…
1Opinion of the Court
Norton, 0. J.
The plaintiff, being a railroad corporation, instituted procéedings in vacation before the judge of the circuit court within and for Henry county to condemn certain lands owned by defendants for right of way for its road. .Commissioners were appointed, and in the vacation of the court, on the twenty-eighth of January, 1885, filed their report. On the fourth of February, 1885, plaintiff filed exceptions to the report, on the alleged ground that the damages awarded and allowed by said commissioners were unjust, exorbitant, and excessive. On the second of May, 1885, the cause having…
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