Merrill v. Central Trust Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the JacJcson Circuit Court. — Hon. R. H. Field, Judge. (1) The court erred in overruling the objection of the defendant and appellant, to the introduction of any evidence under the petition of the plaintiff, for the reason that said petition did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
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Appeal from the JacJcson Circuit Court. — Hon. R. H. Field, Judge. (1) The court erred in overruling the objection of the defendant and appellant, to the introduction of any evidence under the petition of the plaintiff, for the reason that said petition did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. Chitty’s Pleading, star p. 298. (2) The court erred in excluding as evidence the various letters which passed between the plaintiff and the defendant, and which showed truly the transactions between them, and their understanding from time to time of their said bond transaction.…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
On January 10, 1890, N. C. Merrill commenced his action in the circuit court of Jackson county, Missouri, against the Central Trust Company, alleging as-his cause of actioAthat on or abuutthe twenty-eighth day of August, 1889, he had sold and delivered to the defendant certain municipal bonds of the townships of Center and Forrester, and the city of Ness City, a city of the third class, inNess county, Kansas, issued under an act of the legislature of the state of Kansas, entitled “ An act to-encourage the erection of mills and the manufacture of sugar and syrup out of sorghum cane, and…
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