Cox v. Lee

TITUS, Judge.

Defendant bet plaintiff and Delmar Alcorn $3,000 he was not the penman of a *274certain notebook entry. Plaintiff and Al-corn each put up $1,500 in checks. Ten months after defendant cashed plaintiff’s checks, plaintiff sued to recover his money and the jury obliged him with a $1,500 verdict. Following denial of defendant’s after-trial motions, he appealed from the order of the court overruling those motions. This was error. The appeal should have been taken from the judgment entered on the verdict (Rule 81.04; §§ 512.020 and 512.050),1 and not from the order overruling the…