Frye v. Warren
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Newton Circuit Court. — Son. Carr McNatt, Judge. STATEMENT. This case was submitted on briefs, thus depriving us of the benefit of an oral argument. The second amended petition is lengthy.
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Appeal from Newton Circuit Court. — Son. Carr McNatt, Judge. STATEMENT. This case was submitted on briefs, thus depriving us of the benefit of an oral argument. The second amended petition is lengthy. It states in substance that the plaintiff is an attorney and real estate agent; that he was employed in the latter capacity by William C. and Mary J. Warren to dispose of forty acres of land owned by them in Newton county, Missouri; that his compensation was to be the excess over five thousand dollars for which he mig’ht be able to sell the land; that he communicated this employment to Thomas F.…
1Opinion of the Court
*288OPINION.
BOND, J.
Jurisdiction.
(After stating the facts as above.') — It is apparent from the face of the petition that we have no appellate jurisdiction of this cause. The amount involved is only two thousand dollars. The parties to the alleged agreement to sell the land described in the petition have avowed their unwillingness -to take any action looking to its enforcement and insist that they have entered into no binding obligation to sell and purchase. All these facts appear in the allegations of the petition. It is a novel idea that plaintiff, a stranger in title and interest to the land,…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Frye v. WarrenMissouri Court of Appeals · 1915