Lloyd v. Meservey
Decision Date | 02 March 1908 |
Citation | 108 S.W. 595,129 Mo. App. 636 |
Parties | LLOYD et al. v. MESERVEY et al. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; H. L. McCune, Judge.
Action by Mary Lloyd and others against E. C. Meservey and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal. Reversed and remanded.
Cameron L. Orr, for appellants. Thos. H. and Verne D. Edwards, for respondents.
This action was brought against defendants before a justice of the peace for the sum of $40. On appeal to the circuit court, plaintiffs had judgment. The written statement before the justice setting forth plaintiff's cause of action was that defendants were plaintiff's attorneys; that plaintiffs delivered to them a deed to certain real estate, with directions to deliver it to Walcott Calkins in settlement of a compromise agreement between plaintiffs and Calkins, upon the latter paying $50 as per the terms of the compromise; that defendant did deliver the deed to Calkins and receive from him the $50, which sum is due plaintiffs, less $10 as a fee to defendants; that they have demanded the sum of $40 from defendants; and that they did not pay it.
On the trial of the cause the trial court gave the following...
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