Case ID: mo_60/html/0024-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Napton, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Henry Burghart Defendant in Error, v. Hiram Brown, Plaintiff in Error.
    1. Promissory note — Verdict—Judgment—Assessing damages. — In suit on a note where there is a general verdict for plaintiff, but no finding of the amount of recovery, the court cannot proceed to enter up judgment therefor. (Snadon’s Adin’r vs. Nickel!, 42 Mo., 169.)
    
      Error to Livingstone. Circuit Court.
    
    
      J. M. Davis, with H. M. Pollard, for Plaintiff in Error.
    
      C. H. Mansur, for Defendant in Error.
   Napton, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is in all respects like the case of Snadon’s Adm’r vs. Nickell (42 Mo., 169).

In a suit on a note, the only defense was, that the defendant did not execute it, and there was a general verdict for the plaintiff. On this verdict the court entered a judgment' for the amount of the note and interest, which it is plain, on the authority of'the case cited, could not be done.

The judgment is therefore reversed and the cause remanded.

The other judges concur.