Smith v. Vernon County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Vernon Circuit Court. — lion. H. G. Timmonds, Judge. (1) The demurrer to the evidence should have been sustained because there was no evidence offered tending to show that plaintiff complied with the conditions of the reward, and because it was affirmatively shown that the service rendered hy plaintiff in making the arrest was rendered prior to the reward being offered by Vernon county. Sanderson v. Lane, 43 Mo. App. 158; Lovejoy v. Railroad, 53 Mo.
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Appeal from Vernon Circuit Court. — lion. H. G. Timmonds, Judge. (1) The demurrer to the evidence should have been sustained because there was no evidence offered tending to show that plaintiff complied with the conditions of the reward, and because it was affirmatively shown that the service rendered hy plaintiff in making the arrest was rendered prior to the reward being offered by Vernon county. Sanderson v. Lane, 43 Mo. App. 158; Lovejoy v. Railroad, 53 Mo. App. 386; Sheery v. United States, 92 U. S. 77. (2) It is an ancient principle of the common law, steadily adhered to, that a public…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
This cause comes here by virtue of article 6 of the State Constitution as amended in 1884. [See sec. 5 of said amendment.]
*504Lying in small compass, few, simple and substantially agreed to, the record facts are as follows:
Smith on the 14th day of July, 1901, was a member of the police force of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and there is evidence indicating that he was also at the time engaged in the detective business along lines not covered by his official duties as such policeman. On the 3d day of July, 1901, A. D. Paxton was murdered in Vernon county, Missouri, by one. Alva Johnson, who fled the…
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