Price v. Reed
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Audrain Circuit Court.- — Hon. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) The court should have submitted the issue at the commencement of the "trial, so soon as the issues were made up by the pleadings. R. S-. 1879, -secs. 3601, 3603; Proffatt on Jury Trial, sec. 94. The defendant at the close of plaintiff’s testimony asked the court to submit an issue.
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Appeal from the Audrain Circuit Court.- — Hon. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) The court should have submitted the issue at the commencement of the "trial, so soon as the issues were made up by the pleadings. R. S-. 1879, -secs. 3601, 3603; Proffatt on Jury Trial, sec. 94. The defendant at the close of plaintiff’s testimony asked the court to submit an issue. At that time plaintiff had put in evidence only such testimony, as was admissible under the general denial of defendant’s answer, and an issue could have been framed that would have presented only the one issue, and thus avoided putting before…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J. —
This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant in the circuit court of Audrain county, upon a promissory note executed by one Walker to the plaintiff, to secure which, it is alleged in the plaintiff’s petition, Walker undertook to execute a deed of trust on certain real estate, which through the mistake of the scrivener was inaccurately described; that subsequently Walker sold said real estate, and by deed of general warranty conveyed’the same by a correct description to defendant, and that, as a part of the consideration thereof, defendant assumed the payment…
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