Patten v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““As the session of the Common Pleas commenced within the ten days after the appeal, the case, if taken to that court, could not have been tried until the second term, whereas, by taking it to the circuit court, it was triable at the first term, and this term commenced months before the second term of the Common Pleas. The law is, as we understand it, that the appeal shall be taken to that court whose sittings commenced first after the appeal, having jurisdiction to try the case at that term.” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 228 Mo. App. 481 - State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Bell.