Yancey v. Clarkson
Decision Date | 16 June 1914 |
Docket Number | No. 1222.,1222. |
Citation | 182 Mo. App. 435,168 S.W. 236 |
Parties | YANCEY v. CLARKSON. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Action by Charles D. Yancey against George W. Clarkson. There was a judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. Affirmed.
Charles D. Yancey, of St. Louis, pro se.
Plaintiff's abstract of the record sets out his petition, defendant's answer, and plaintiff's reply, and then follows what is entitled a "Statement and History of the Case." This undertakes to give some testimony, but it does not disclose that it is included within the bill of exceptions.
The petition is in two counts, but we gather from the so-called abstract of the record that there was a dismissal as to the second count and a jury trial had on the first count resulting in a directed verdict for the defendant, upon which judgment was entered, and the plaintiff brings the case here by writ of error.
The first count of plaintiff's petition, on which the trial was had, declares upon a contract alleged to have been entered into by defendant for the sale of certain lands to the plaintiff, with which the defendant, as plaintiff alleges, failed and refused to comply.
The answer starts out with a general denial of "each and every allegation in plaintiff's petition contained, except such as may be hereinafter specifically admitted." Then follows a specific denial that he executed the contract set out in the plaintiff's petition, and then the...
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