Case Name: Swartz v. Nicholson, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1877-10
Citations: 65 Mo. 508
Docket Number: 
Parties: Swartz v. Nicholson, Appellant.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 508–509

Head Matter:
Swartz v. Nicholson, Appellant.
Plaintiff’s Statement of his cause of action filed in the Justice’s court, Held, insufficient.
Appeal from Barton Circuit Court.—Hón. John D. Parkinson, Judge.
Morgan & Buler for appellant.

Opinion:
Sherwood, C. J.
Action on a memorandum, before a justice of the peace, in this form :
"LeRoy, Barton County, Mo., Sept. 19th, 1872.—C. S. Nicholson, debtor to Marion Swartz, fourteen dollars."
Plaintiff' had judgment before the magistrate and on appeal to the circuit court also, notwithstanding the objections of the defendant, and his motion to dismiss. Sec. 13, 2 "Wag. Stat. 814, requires in a suit like the present, "A statement of the facts constituting the cause of action to be filed with the justice," &c. As no such statement was filed, the motion of defendant should have prevailed, and Bra-shears v. Strode, (46 Mo. 221), is directly in point.
Judgment reversed.
All concur.
Reversed.