Hunt v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Special Law and Equity Court — Hon. R. E. Cowan, Judge. 1. The tax hill is no part of the petition, and the court in determining the sufficiency of the petition, must look alone to the petition. It should purport to give the contents of the tax-hill, hut this it does not do. Sess.
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Appeal from Jackson Special Law and Equity Court — Hon. R. E. Cowan, Judge. 1. The tax hill is no part of the petition, and the court in determining the sufficiency of the petition, must look alone to the petition. It should purport to give the contents of the tax-hill, hut this it does not do. Sess. Acts of 1872, Sec. 25, pp. 408, 413. 2. Circuit courts have no original jurisdiction to try cases'cognizable before justices of the peace; except where, provision is made for concurrent jurisdiction. Stamps v. Bridwell, 57 Mo. 22; Dillard v. St. L. K. C. § N. B. B. Co., 58 Mo. 69. Justices of the…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
— This suit was instituted in the special law and equity court of Jackson county, and is founded on forty-two separate tax-bills. The petition contains forty-two separate counts, forty of them based on tax-bills under the sum of $50, one on a tax-bill for $54, and one on a tax-bill for $173.84, the whole aggregating the sum of about $1,500.
Upon the trial plaintiff offered in evidence the various tax-bills on which the various counts of the petition were founded, to which defendants objected, on the grounds that the- petition did not state a cause of action, and that the court had no…
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