Scientific American Club v. Horchitz
Decision Date | 17 December 1907 |
Citation | 128 Mo. App. 575,106 S.W. 1117 |
Parties | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN CLUB v. HORCHITZ. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; Daniel G. Taylor, Judge.
Action by the Scientific American Club against Louis Horchitz. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
Frank K. Ryan, for appellant. Bishop & Cobbs, for respondent.
The action was begun before J. J. Spaulding, Esq., a justice of the peace, in the city of St. Louis. An answer was filed to the complaint and the issues were tried by the justice on May 28, 1906, resulting in a judgment for plaintiff. On June 9, 1906 (seven days after the judgment was rendered by the justice), defendant took an appeal to the circuit court. No notice of the appeal was ever served on plaintiff. After the lapse of three terms of the circuit court, to wit, the June, October, and December terms, 1906, plaintiff at the February term, 1907, filed its motion to affirm the judgment of the justice, for the reason no notice of the appeal had been given. At the same term defendant filed the following motion (omitting caption), which was supported by an affidavit: "Now comes Louis Horchitz, defendant in the above-entitled cause, and moves to dismiss the proceedings herein for the reason that the plaintiff was a foreign corporation organized under the laws of the state of New York, and resident in this state and doing business herein at the times mentioned in plaintiff's petition herein, and that the transactions alleged in said petition were had in this state; the plaintiff had not previously complied with the...
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