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13 Mo. 317

Powell v. Buckley

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided March 15, 1850

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1850-03-15

This was an action of indibitatns assumpsit brought in the St. Louis court of common pleas by Powell vs. Buckley, to recover for carpenters and joiners work done on the defendant’s house. The declaration contained the common counts for work and labor, &c., and the case was Died by a jury in the court below on the general issue.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1899

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Decided 1850-03-15

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Judge Birch

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2We suppose the first instruction in this case to have been predicated? not upon the ground that the plaintiff had misconceived, but immaturely commenced his action, Even in that view, however, we deem it to have been too broad and Unspecific: whilst it was proper to inform the jury,in the hypothetical .manner assumed in the instruction, that for work found to have been done under the agreement, a right of action had not accrued at the time of bringing the suit^ the instruction should have gone farther, and have discriminated between such work and the extra services to which the testimony had relation. For such services, if any thing remained due, the plaintiff was entitled to judgment? and the court should have so informed the jury. We have reference, of course, to the extra work performed upon the second building, for as to the first, which was blown down, unless the jury should be satisfied that there was, and remained,-a subsequent specific agreement to pay for it, we perceive nothing in the facts of this case to distinguish it from precedent ones? in which the pleadings of conscience and the weight of authority alike concur to discharge the defendant.

¶3Let the judgment? therefore, be reversed, and the cause, remanded for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion.

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