Legal Opinion

Porter v. Harrison

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided March 15, 1873PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. Tlie instructions given for the plaintiff and defendant fully present the law, and it is not necessary that all the principles of law relating to the case should be presented in any one of the instructions given by either party. (McKeonvs. Citizens Railway Oo., 43 Mo., 405 ; Moore vs. Sauborin, 42 Mo., 490; Marshall vs. Thames Fire Ins. Co., 43 Mo., 586.)

1Opinion of the Court

"V"oríes, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff charges, that his horses, which being hitched or harnessed to his wagon, were securely hitched with a strap on Tenth street, on which street, it being a public highway, he was driving and had occasion to stop, and that the defendant was possessed of a carriage and horses, which were also at said time being driven and conducted along said street by a servant in the employ of defendant for that purpose; that by the negligence and carelessness of the said servant of the deendants, his said carriage was driven upon and against said…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Marshall v. Thames Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1869
  2. McKeon v. Citizens' Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1869
  3. Moore v. SauborinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1868

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Doyle v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1897
  2. Miller v. PriceSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1934
  3. Oklahoma Ry. Co. v. ChristensonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1915
  4. State v. PikeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1876
  5. Hoffman v. ParryMissouri Court of Appeals · 1886

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