21 Mo. 444
Decided July 15, 1855
Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1855-07-15
Action begun in the Circuit Court to recover the sum of $128, delivered bj tbe plaintiff to the defendant in California, in gold dust, to be paid to plaintiff’s wife in Missouri.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1855-07-15
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1990
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
View the full empirical analysis of this case →
¶1The trial hero was by the court, and the record shows no finding of the facts.
¶2According to the repeated decisions of this court, this is an error, for which the judgment must be reversed, (Bates v. Bower, 17 Mo. Rep. 550. Farrar v. Lyon, 19 Mo. Rep. 122,) and it is reversed accordingly, and the cause remanded.