Boggs v. Pacific Steam Laundry Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.. — Hon. Horatio H. Wood, Judge. (1) An oral contract to employ a man for life is not void by reason of the statute of frauds. The man -may die the next' day and hence the contract may be performed within a year.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.. — Hon. Horatio H. Wood, Judge. (1) An oral contract to employ a man for life is not void by reason of the statute of frauds. The man -may die the next' day and hence the contract may be performed within a year. The contract made with Bog’gs, in the case at bar, was as good and as valid and as legal a contract as it would have been had it been drafted by all the lawyers of the land and reduced to writing and executed in the presence of the most august court in the nation. A few Missouri decisions on this point will suffice: Eoster v. McO’Blenis &…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, J.
The petition in this case recites that the plaintiff lost his arm from the use of machinery while in the service of defendant; that five days thereafter the following agreement was entered into by plaintiff and the defendant, to-wit:
“Whereas, Howard Boggs of the city of St. Louis, while in the employment of the Pacific Steam Laundry, a corporation of the State of Missouri, did at the laundry, of said company, No. 515 Elm street in said city, on the eighth day of December, 1888, lose his hand and a part of his arm by his careless and negligent use of a wringer, of which he had full charge and…
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- Jackson v. Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1893
- Harrington v. Kansas City Cable Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1895
- Winters v. CherrySupreme Court of Missouri · 1883
- Bray v. KrempSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Griffith v. HanksSupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
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