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15 Mo. 289

Steil v. Ackli

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided October 15, 1851

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1851-10-15

Louis Circuit Court. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. This was an action for malicious prosecution, brought in the St. Louis court-of common pieas. The petition stated, that the defendant did falsely, maliciously and without probable cause, cause the plaintiff to be indicted; that the plaintiff was indicted, imprisoned, gave bail, was tried and acquited by the jury, without leaving the box, and asked damages for the injury sustained.

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Decided 1851-10-15

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Gamble, J.,

¶1delivered the ,g,pinion qf (the .cojurji,

¶2In this case the judgment must be reversed, and ti;e only ground upon which it is reversed, is, the giving of . the . sixth instruction, p) these wordst “All averments in the petition, not denied in t]h.e answer, are to he taken as admitted, but every averment in the petition ;wh(ich jg «denied, is .not evidence, nor is the denial of the averment in thje answer evidence, hut all averments when denied and the denials also, ai’e to be supported by proofs, or, disregarded by the jury.”

¶3It ¡has.already been decided, at this ierm/in the c^se of Butcher vs. Death & Teasdale., that it is the duty of the .court to tell the jury what facts, stated in the petition, arettobe, taken as admitted, because the defendanfhas failed to deny them; and that it is e.rr.or for the ¡court to leave to the jury iSihe task of sifting the pleadings to find what facts are stated -on-one side ¡and specifically denied ,on the other, go as,£9 make an issue, which they are to determine by- the evidence.

¶4*293The judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings,

the other judges concurring.
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