Dennison v. County of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Cou/rt of Common Pleas. If the work was ordered to be done by the judges of the county either on the bench to plaintiff, or to the engineer and agents of the county, by whom plaintiff was ordered to do the work, and did do it, it was perfectly proper proof. (Boggs t.
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Appeal from St. Louis Cou/rt of Common Pleas. If the work was ordered to be done by the judges of the county either on the bench to plaintiff, or to the engineer and agents of the county, by whom plaintiff was ordered to do the work, and did do it, it was perfectly proper proof. (Boggs t. Caldwell Co. 28 Mo. 589.) What a court of record does is known alone by its record; its doings, then, cannot be established by parol proof, (Medlin v. Platte Co. 8 Mo.; 12 Mo. 598;) provided it is necessary that the proceeding should be recorded. Every act of the court need not be recorded. It is not…
1Opinion of the CourtBay, Judge
The record in this case discloses no error committed by the court below. By a special act of the Legislature, approved March 5,1855, the county court of St. Louis county was empowered to open, establish, change and keep in repair all the public roads in said county, and to employ for such purpose such surveyors, engineers or agents as might bo deemed necessary.
The second count of plaintiff’s petition alleges that by virtue of an agreement made by plaintiff with one Gray, as engineer and agent of the defendant, he delivered, for the use of the defendant, on the Bellefontaine road, four hundred…
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