Watkins v. Trustees of the Richmond College
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Fifth District Court. The cause was submitted to the court without a jury. The plaintiff moved the court to declare the law as follows : 1. If, from the evidence given to the court in this case sitting as a jury, the court should find that James R. Allen, the plaintiff’s intestate, did have the college building completed for defendants, and did pay and lay out the amount of money in plaintiff’s petition mentioned for that purpose, and that, during the carrying on of…
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Error to Fifth District Court. The cause was submitted to the court without a jury. The plaintiff moved the court to declare the law as follows : 1. If, from the evidence given to the court in this case sitting as a jury, the court should find that James R. Allen, the plaintiff’s intestate, did have the college building completed for defendants, and did pay and lay out the amount of money in plaintiff’s petition mentioned for that purpose, and that, during the carrying on of the work necessary to the completion of said building, the said defendants were fully apprised thereof, and knowingly…
1Opinion of the CourtFagg, Judge
It is shown by the record that this suit was instituted in the Ray Circuit Court, to recover a sum of money alleged to have been advanced by James R. Allen in his lifetime, for the completion of the college edifice at the city of Richmond. A trial was had before the court sitting as a jury, which resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendants. The judgment was reversed upon an appeal taken to the 5 th District Court, and the case is now brought here upon a writ of error.
A careful examination of the record, we think, limits this court to the consideration of only one question. All of…
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