Case Name: Moffett-West Drug Company, Respondent, v. Chas. P. Johnson, Appellant
Court: Kansas City Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1899-05-08
Citations: 80 Mo. App. 428
Docket Number: 
Parties: Moffett-West Drug Company, Respondent, v. Chas. P. Johnson, Appellant.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 80
Pages: 428–429

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.