Boegemann v. Bracey

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County sustaining defendant’s motion to strike this cause from the docket of that court.

The suit which gives rise to the present controversy is one for damages for assault and rape. The original petition was filed July 18, 1917. On July 14, 1919, a motion filed November 17, 1917, by plaintiff to sue as a poor person was overruled. On the first day of the September term, the court of its own motion dismissed the cause for failure of plaintiff to comply with a rule to give security for costs. At the same term, on October 7, 1919,…