Jones v. Alf. Bennett Lumber Co.
Decision Date | 03 June 1913 |
Citation | 157 S.W. 864 |
Parties | JONES v. ALF. BENNETT LUMBER CO. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Action by J. T. Jones against the Alf. Bennett Lumber Company. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Reversed.
W. E. Edmonds, of Bernie, for plaintiff in error. Johnson, Houts, Marlatt & Hawes, of St. Louis, for defendant in error.
Plaintiff, defendant in error here, brought suit in the Stoddard county circuit court on August 6, 1910, against the Alf. Bennett Lumber Company, plaintiff in error, upon certain claims, theretofore assigned to plaintiff, for work and labor performed for the firm of Chas. M. Fletcher & Son. The petition contains 23 different counts; the first count thereof, omitting formal allegations, being as follows:
Each of the 22 succeeding counts were substantially the same as that above, differing only in the name of the person by whom the work and labor was alleged to have been performed and the amount due therefor.
Continuing, the petition set out in full a notice alleged to have been served on defendant September 24, 1909, stating the amount claimed to be due plaintiff as assignee of the 23 claims sued upon, specifying the nature of the work performed by said laborers and when performed, calling attention to section 3167, c. 26, Rev. Stat. of Mo. 1899 (now section 2188, Rev. Stat. 1909), and reciting that the business of Charles M. Fletcher & Son had been suspended by the action of...
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