Douglass v. Cissna
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Nodaway Circuit Court, Hon. H. S. Kelley, Judge. Motion for rehearing denied. Statement of case by the court. This is an action of attachment.
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Appeal from Nodaway Circuit Court, Hon. H. S. Kelley, Judge. Motion for rehearing denied. Statement of case by the court. This is an action of attachment. The affidavit for the writ is as follows : “This.affiant states that the plaintiffs in the above entitled cause have a just demand against the defendant herein, all past due, except $55.10, and that the amount which this affiant believes the plaintiffs ought to recover, after allowing all just credits and set-offs, is two hundred and eighty-five dollars and nineteen cents, and that this affiant has good reason to believe, and does believe,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Philips, P. J.
In this case the plaintiffs asked twenty instructions, of which the court gave eight. The court also gave twelve instructions on behalf of defendant. We are asked in this case to review all those refused and those given. The habit of counsel in thus multiplying instructions, has time and again been animadverted upon and censured by the supreme court. But instead of curing the evil practice, it seems to be on the increase. If the court decline to accept the pressing invitation of counsel to look carefully and minutely through such a labyrinth of propositions to…
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