Missouri Coal & Mining Co. v. Ladd
Supreme Court of Missouri
'Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Selden P. Spencer, Judge. (1) Plaintiffs replication shows it had not complied with the law; for this reason appellants’ motion in arrest of judgment should have been sustained. (2) The evidence shows that plaintiff had been for many years, and was at time of trial, doing business as a corporation, through its agent in Missouri, and that it had never pretended to comply with the law.
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'Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Selden P. Spencer, Judge. (1) Plaintiffs replication shows it had not complied with the law; for this reason appellants’ motion in arrest of judgment should have been sustained. (2) The evidence shows that plaintiff had been for many years, and was at time of trial, doing business as a corporation, through its agent in Missouri, and that it had never pretended to comply with the law. (3) The court erroneously included in its judgment for plaintiff eight hundred dollars which it had never paid to Judge McLaughlin. Geo. T. Murdock’s deposition…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This is an action upon an attachment bond executed by defendants to plaintiff in a suit in the circuit court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Eastern District of Missouri, wherein the defendant Ladd was plaintiff, and the plaintiff in this suit was defendant. The penal sum in the bond was $69,500, and its conditions as follows: “That, Whereas; William M. Ladd is about to institute a suit in the circuit court of the United States for *438the Eastern Division of the Eastern Judicial District of Missouri, by attachment, against the Missouri Coal and Mining Company, defendant, for…
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