Davis v. McColl

In this case plaintiff brought five suits in a justice court of Jackson county, Missouri, upon five notes by merely filing with the justice the said notes without further statement of his cause of action. Summonses were issued and served upon the defendant in each of the suits and on the return day judgment was rendered for plaintiff. Defendant appealed to the circuit court where the five suits were by agreement consolidated into one.

A jury was waived and the cause submitted to the court. Plaintiff offered in evidence the five notes and rested. Defendant demurred. The court overruled the…