Legal Opinion

Yelton v. Becker

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided April 15, 1952No. 27968PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

248 S.W.2d 86 (1952)

YELTON

v.

BECKER et al.

No. 27968.

St. Louis Court of Appeals. Missouri.

April 15, 1952.

Walter A. Kelly, Wm. H. Corcoran, Jr., St. Louis, for appellant Becker.

Preston Quick, St. Louis, for respondent.

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court awarding Fred Yelton $29 actual and $500 punitive damages in a suit against Aloysius D. Becker and P. J. Fitzgerald, justice of the peace and constable, respectively, in the First District, City of St. Louis. This suit is based upon the wrongful and malicious issuance of a writ of attachment and in refusing…

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2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Pike v. MegounSupreme Court of Missouri · 1869
  2. State ex rel. North & South Railway Co. v. MeierSupreme Court of Missouri · 1898
  3. Stone v. GravesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1843
  4. State ex rel. Millett v. FieldMissouri Court of Appeals · 1889
  5. McDonald v. LoewenMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Kanagawa v. State by and Through FreemanSupreme Court of Missouri · 1985
  2. Rustici v. WeidemeyerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1984
  3. Jackson v. WilsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1979
  4. State Ex Rel. Eli Lilly & Co. v. Hon. Carl R. GaertnerMissouri Court of Appeals · 1981
  5. DOE a v. Special Sch. Dist. of St. Louis CountyDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri · 1986

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