Finney v. Shirley

Opinion of the Court by

Napton Judge.

This was an action brought before a justice of the peace of St. Louis, upon the following instrument; “Due Shirley and Hoffman, the sum of one hundred and forty-two dollars,— cents, the am’t. of two meat bills, rendered. $142. Portland, Nov. 3,1838. Thomas F. Coburn, Clk. for steamboat Bee and owners.”

Judgment was given for the plaintiffs, and defendant appealed to the circuit court, and judgment having been again for plaintiffs, a motion for a new trial was made, and overruled, and the case brought here by appeal.

The only question appears to be on the…