Sweet v. Maupin
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court.—Hon. James K. Knight, Judge. This suit was brought in the year 1866. It is based on five promissory notes of defendant. The case was here before, and is reported in 47 Mo. 323, when a judgment for defendant was reversed.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court.—Hon. James K. Knight, Judge. This suit was brought in the year 1866. It is based on five promissory notes of defendant. The case was here before, and is reported in 47 Mo. 323, when a judgment for defendant was reversed. The only issue presented by the pleadings is, whether the notes were considered and included in an allowance made by the county court in favor of the defendant, in the year 1864, for $3,607.19 ; the defendant holding the affirmative. There was great conflict of evidence, and it was chiefly directed to two points : First—Whether the records of…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, C. J.
i. probate court: ^IS^eaot^of allowance.
It would indeed be difficult to carefully peruse the voluminous evidence in this case without reaching the same conclusion the jury did in fEe verdict found for the plaintiff', as the original claim, now before us, shows an evident alteration in the character of the allowance endorsed *67thereon—an alteration made with such great assiduity, both with pen and eraser, as to scarcely leave the faintest doubt that honest purpose never prompted the significant erasure.
2_, offget. paroi evidence.
II. Complaint is made that Judge Becker, the presiding justice at…
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