Tice v. Fleming
Citation | 72 S.W. 689,173 Mo. 49 |
Parties | TICE v. FLEMING. |
Decision Date | 24 February 1903 |
Court | United States State Supreme Court of Missouri |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Texas county; W. N. Evans, Judge.
Action by Perry G. Tice against Frank Fleming to recover on a judgment for damages and rent rendered in a suit for ejectment, and subsequent rent, and which defendant sought to have set off against a judgment recovered by him for improvements. From a judgment allowing the setoff, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
On October 7, 1899, plaintiff filed in substance the following petition:
The prayer is for $650.62 and possession of land described in the petition.
The answer, filed November 23, 1899, properly admits the judgment sued on, admits the injunction of May, 1889, denies other allegations, and proceeds as follows:
The ten and five year limitation statutes are properly pleaded. The replication is general denial.
W. E. Barton, for appellant. Orchard & Saye, for respondent.
FOX, J. (after stating the facts).
It will be observed from the petition in this cause that the plaintiff, in addition to the collection of the money judgment, included in his action the recovery of the land, for which he had recovered judgment, by the judgment upon which this suit is brought. However, will say that, from the brief filed by appellant, this part of the claim, as alleged in the petition, is abandoned; hence will not regard that as being before this court for review. See remark of appellant in brief, "that the only question in this appeal is, can this $85.92, with interest, be collected?" In the answer in this case, there is pleaded the statute of limitation, and also a judgment for improvements, which is claimed as a set-off against the judgment sued on for $85.92. This judgment, upon which suit is brought for its collection, was rendered for damages, rents, and profits in the original ejectment suit between these...
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