Bruns v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Cole Circuit Court. I. That the two several acts of the State Legislature, entitled “An act for the relief of persons while doing actual military service for the State,” approved May 15,1861, and “An act to amend an act for the relief of persons while doing actual military service for the State,” approved March 17, 1863 (see Sess, Acts 1861, p. 46; also Sess. Acts 1863, p. 30), “ are not only constitutional but properly pleaded as a bar to the suit.
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Error to Cole Circuit Court. I. That the two several acts of the State Legislature, entitled “An act for the relief of persons while doing actual military service for the State,” approved May 15,1861, and “An act to amend an act for the relief of persons while doing actual military service for the State,” approved March 17, 1863 (see Sess, Acts 1861, p. 46; also Sess. Acts 1863, p. 30), “ are not only constitutional but properly pleaded as a bar to the suit. This identical question has heretofore been reviewed and decided in this court. The “Act to suspend all legal process against persons…
1Opinion of the CourtBates, Judge
The plaintiffs sued Crawford and Hart upon a promissory note, dated June 2d, 1862, and payable one day after date.
Crawford answered admitting that he executed the note as the security of Hart, and pleaded that, “ at the time of the commencement of plaintiffs’ suit, and since that time, he was and is in the actual military service of the State of Missouri; and he therefore says, that said suit was commenced contrary to the several acts of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri respectively, entitled, “An act for the relief of persons while doing actual military service for the State,”…
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