Snyder v. Gericke
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — New. Henry G. Pepper, Judge. (1) A ratification must be pleaded by a party seeking its protection, and unless it is pleaded it can not avail. Wade v. Hardy, 75 Mo. 399; Webb v. Ailing-ton & Anderson, 27 Mo.
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — New. Henry G. Pepper, Judge. (1) A ratification must be pleaded by a party seeking its protection, and unless it is pleaded it can not avail. Wade v. Hardy, 75 Mo. 399; Webb v. Ailing-ton & Anderson, 27 Mo. App. 571. (2) No action shall be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any debt contracted during infancy unless such person sba.11 have ratified the same by some other act than a verbal promise to pay the same, and the following acts on the part of such person after he becomes of full age shall constitute a ratification of such debt: first, an…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
The suit was commenced in a justice’s court on the following promissory note:
“ $18.50. Miller, Mo., June 2, 1898.
‘ ‘ Three months after date I promise to pay to the order of S. W. Bishop, eighteen dollars and fifty one-hundredths dollars. For value received, negotiable and payable without defalcation or discount and with interest from date at the rate of eight per cent per an-num, and if .the interest be not paid annually to become as principal and. bear the same rate of interest.
‘ ‘ Samuel Gekicke.
“Due Sept. 2.
“Indorsed: G. "W. Bishop.”
Plaintiff recovered judgment in the justice’s court from…
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