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151 Mo. App. 569

Lowe v. Frede

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided December 5, 1910

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1910-12-05

— Ho». Wm. C. Ellison, Judge. (1) In view of the evidence confined to the altercation on the sidewalk, or outside of defendant’s building, to which plaintiff elected to submit to the jury that issue only, and the instruction given on part of defendant, it is hard to reconcile defendant’s instruction with the instruction given on part of plaintiff.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1971

2 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Transferred to the Supreme Court · Decided 1910-12-05

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ELLISON, J.

¶1Plaintiff's action is for assault and battery, in which he prays judgment for fifteen thousand dollars compensatory and fifteen thousand dollars exemplary damages, making a total of thirty thousand dollars which he seeks to recover. There was a trial and a verdict for the defendant. Plaintiff then, in due time, filed a motion for new trial and this was overruled. No judgment was rendered for defendant and plaintiff took his appeal from the order overruling the motion for new trial. The statute (sec. 806, R. S. 1899, sec. 2038, R. S. 1909) authorizes an appeal from an order granting a new trial, but not where a new trial is refused. Plaintiff’s appeal is therefore without legal right or authority.

¶2We would dismiss the appeal but for the fact that we are without jurisdiction. The sum in controversy is the amount of plaintiff’s claim, which, as already stated, is thirty thousand dollars. That sum is beyond our jurisdiction and is in that of the Supreme Court, to which we will order the cause transferred.

All concur.
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