Meyer v. McCabe

This was an action of trespass commenced originally before a justice of the peace in Gentry county,. Missouri, where, upon a trial before a jury, the plaintiff' got a verdict and judgment for $30, from which the defendant appealed to the circuit court, where, upon a trial before the court without a jury, the plaintiff again got a judgment and verdict for $15, from which the defendants,, after an unsuccessful motion for a new trial, bring the case here by appeal.

The complaint filed before the justice, on which this. *237■ac tion was founded, is as follows : “ Plaintiff states that on the 12th day…