Case ID: mo-app_80/html/0428-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ELLISON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Moffett-West Drug Company, Respondent, v. Chas. P. Johnson, Appellant.
    Kansas City Court of Appeals,
    May 8, 1899.
    Justices’ Courts: sufficiency of statement: jurisdiction: void judgment. A statement set out in the opinion is held insufficient in an action before a justice of the peace.
    
      Appeal from the St. Clair Circuit Court. — Hon. J. H. Lay, Judge.
    Reversed.
    Johnson & Lucas for appellant.
    The statement was and is insufficient to confer jurisdiction on the justice. Swartz v. Nicholson, 65 Mo. 508; Brashears v. Strock, 46 Mo. 221; Rosenburg v. Boyd, 14 Mo. App. 429; Nutter v. Houston, 32 Mo. App. 451; Hill v. Ore and Steel Co., 90 Mo, 103; McCrary v. Good, 74 Mo. App. 425; Reinhardt v. Kernpf, 72 Mo. App. 646; Doggett v. Blanke, 70 Mo. App. 500.
   ELLISON, J.

The plaintiff filed the following account before a justice of the peace:

“C. P. Johnson, Osceola, Missouri,
To Moffett-West Drug Company, Dr.
9-2 To mdse...................'.........51.88
21 To mdse...........................42.98
94.80’'

The question made is as to its sufficiency to base ax action upon. We think it is not sufficient. McCrary v Good, 74 Mo. App. 425; Doggett v. Blanke, 70 Mo. App. 500; Brashears v. Strock, 46 Mo. 221; Swartz v. Nicholson, 65 Mo. 508; Weese v. Brown, 102 Mo. 299.

Reversed.

All concur.