Bueker v. Aufderheide
Decision Date | 23 January 1940 |
Docket Number | 36133 |
Parties | Fred Bueker, Jr., Trustee, Appellant, v. E. R. Aufderheide, W. E. Hennemann, H. A. Kramme, Edwin Langenberg, E. W. Steinbeck and A. F. Berger |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from Osage Circuit Court; Hon. R. A. Breuer, Judge.
Appeal dismissed.
Frank G. Warren, John Peters and E. M. Zevely for appellant.
Paul B. Dessieux, Joseph T. Tate, James Booth and James L. Anding for respondents.
(1) Respondents' motion to dismiss ought to be sustained for the reasons therein given. Redler v. Travelers Ins Co., 117 S.W.2d 241; Colorado Milling & Elevator Co v. Rolla Wholesale Gro. Co., 102 S.W.2d 681. (2) When a person obtains a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in his behalf, the presumptions are all in favor of its validity, and the correctness of the means by which it was obtained, and the burden is on the one who alleges error to show it. The law has cast upon the appellant, not respondent, the onus of preparing a printed abstract of the entire record of the case, and this the appellant has not done in this case. If a party, relying on the provision that his opponent, if not satisfied, should file a further abstract, can cast the burden on his adversary by filing a wholly insufficient and garbled abstract, consisting of appellant's conclusions as to what the evidence shows, an emasculation and omission of vital parts of the record, it can readily be seen that the burden will be improperly on respondent to maintain his judgment and not on appellant to reverse it. (3) This court will not review the rulings of the court below in passing on a demurrer to the evidence where the abstract of the record fails to contain all of the evidence. Harrison v. Pounds, 190 Mo. 351.
Bradley C. Hyde and Dalton, CC., concur.
The Farmers & Merchants Bank of Owensville Missouri, closed on August 15, 1932. In his own behalf and as assignee of other depositors, plaintiff, on August 22, 1933 commenced this cause against the directors to recover $ 88,084.52. The cause is based on the claim that when the deposits involved were made, defendants knew that the bank "was insolvent or in failing circumstances."
It would seem that this cause came about from certain activities of one William R. Parker who apparently was a stranger in Owensville and thereabout. Of Parker, plaintiff testified:
The paper called the contract, not dated, as it appears in the record, is as follows:
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