Conroy v. Vulcan Iron Works

• Decision Date: 31 October 1882
• Citation: 75 Mo. 651
• Parties: CONROY v. THE VULCAN IRON WORKS, Appellant.
• Court: Missouri Supreme Court

75 Mo. 651

CONROY

v.THE VULCAN IRON WORKS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri.

October Term, 1882.

This case having been re-tried in accordance with the rules laid down by this court on a former appeal, and no new points being involved in the present appeal, the judgment is affirmed.

Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals

AFFIRMED.

Cline, Jamison & Day for appellant.James C. McGinnis and Finkelnburg & Rassieur for respondent.

RAY, J.

This cause was in this court once before, and will be found reported in 62 Mo. 35.It was sent back to the circuit court, and after a re-trial was carried to the St. Louis court of appeals, and will be found reported in 6 Mo. App. 102.From that court, it is again here by appeal.When the case was here before, all the vital questions now presented, were then fully considered and decided by this court.The same points were again presented and urged before the St. Louis court of appeals, where the views of this court, as expressed when the case was here before, were fully recognized and re-applied by that court, as the law of this case, and we are again called upon to consider the same questions.As the case seems to have been re-tried in accordance with the rules laid down by this court on the former appeal, and as no new points are involved in the present appeal, we deem it sufficient to refer to that opinion, and to say that we adhere to the rulings heretofore made, and re-applied to the case, both by the trial court and the court of appeals, as before stated.

Plaintiff's original brief, in this court, presents no point not urged before and passed upon by the court of appeals, or by this court, in the opinions cited.In a supplemental brief, however, our attention is called to a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, by Justice Harlan, in the case...