Reed v. Peck, Guitar & Watson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Transferred from Kansas City Court of Appeals. (1) There was no evidence to support the verdict against the defendants Guitar, Watson and Peek, or either of them, and the court should have directed a verdict in their favor. (2) The court erred in permitting the witnesses, Mrs. Rives and Miss Irene Rives, over defendant’s objection, to testify that- Coffey told them he was getting his orders about the work from the city council.
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Transferred from Kansas City Court of Appeals. (1) There was no evidence to support the verdict against the defendants Guitar, Watson and Peek, or either of them, and the court should have directed a verdict in their favor. (2) The court erred in permitting the witnesses, Mrs. Rives and Miss Irene Rives, over defendant’s objection, to testify that- Coffey told them he was getting his orders about the work from the city council. This was pure hearsay, and decidedly prejudicial, since the jury may have gotten the idea that the members had personally been giving orders about the matter. Wood v.…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
— This action was instituted by George R. Jacobs against the city of Columbia, and others, including the appellants, Peek, Guitar and Watson, to recover damages for the grading and graveling of Hitt street in said city along by Jacobs’s property. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment against the' appellants in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $225, and in favor of the other defendants.
The defendants against whom the judgment was rendered then appealed the case to the Kansas City Court of Appeals, where the judgment was affirmed.
Thereafter, the cause was transferred by that court to the…
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