Ireland v. Spickard
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court. — Sow. J. W. Alexander, Judge. (1) The court, over the objection of appellant, admitted evidence that James J. Lawson had given plaintiffs, as pay for extra services, forty acres of land of the value of $600 and $45 in cash. This was error. The contract in issue was dated April 4, 1894, and James Lawson died on May 23,. 1894, and these sums could not have been for reward of services for one month and nineteen days.
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Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court. — Sow. J. W. Alexander, Judge. (1) The court, over the objection of appellant, admitted evidence that James J. Lawson had given plaintiffs, as pay for extra services, forty acres of land of the value of $600 and $45 in cash. This was error. The contract in issue was dated April 4, 1894, and James Lawson died on May 23,. 1894, and these sums could not have been for reward of services for one month and nineteen days. (2) The court allowed one of the plaintiffs to testify as a witness in this cause. This was error; he was a party to the suit and to the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
The conspicuous facts disclosed by the evidence in the present case may be chronologically stated in this wise, namely: James J. Lawson, a man possessed of a considerable estate and far advanced in years, with his wife-Nancy C., had been, for some time prior to April 4, 1894, residing and boarding with the plaintiffs while the latter occupied certain premises of the former consisting of a house, lot, barn and orchard, and that on said date such latter entered into a written contract with such former to the effect that such latter thereby “agreed to remain in the house where they now reside at…
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