Welch v. Bryan
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dent Circuit Court. I. The court erred in overruling the demurrer and motion in arrest. There was no evidence of any contract between the parties. A promise to pay for improvements, made after the entry of the land, is a nullity. ( I. This court will not interfere with the verdicts of juries on the ground that they are against the weight of evidence. (24 Mo. 97; id. 216 ; 20 Mo. 312.)
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, Judge
The motion in arrest, in this case, presents the question, whether the petition was sufficient to support the judgment. It is stated in the petition that on or about the first of January, 1856, the plaintiff owned an improvement consisting of a dwelling-house, out-houses, and a field on a tract of land belonging to the United States ; that the defendant entered *31the land on the 18th January, 1856, and that the “ defendant at the time of said purchase and divers times since did undertake and faithfully promise to pay said plaintiff what said improvements were reasonably worth,” &c.
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