Bury v. Woods
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, Hon Turner A. Gill, Judge. Statement of case by tlie court. This is a suit for money alleged to have been collected and received by defendant of James Mathews “to and for the use of these plaintiffs.”
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, Hon Turner A. Gill, Judge. Statement of case by tlie court. This is a suit for money alleged to have been collected and received by defendant of James Mathews “to and for the use of these plaintiffs.” Plaintiffs were a firm doing business at Kansas City, Mo., under the style of the Kansas City Agricultural Implement Co. March 11, 1878, said Mathews executed his two negotiable promissory notes to said firm, under •said firm name, one due June 1, 1878, for $313.65, and the other (the one in controversy) for $162.30-due August 1, 1878. At and prior to said…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Hall, J.
The errors complained of in this court are : 1st. That the court below should not have given plaintiffs’ declarar tion of law. 2d. That the said court should have given the declarations of law asked by defendant.
I. Considered abstractly, plaintiffs’ declaration of law is correct. And it is abundantly supported by the evidence so far as its terms favor plaintiffs.
That the defendant paid any present valuable consideration for the note in controversy it is not contended. Unless then, some credit was given, or some risk or responsibility was incurred upon the faith of the note…
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