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32 Mo. 477

Standiford v. Gentry

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided July 15, 1862

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1862-07-15

The court erred in not arresting the judgment. There should have been a separate finding of the jury on both counts, as they were separate and distinct causes of action. (See Mooney v. Kennett, 19 Mo. 551.) The jury must find all the facts put in issue. (Fenwick v. Logan, 1 Mo. 283; Hickman v. Bird, 1 Mo. 350 ; Talbot v. Jones, 5 Mo. 217.) Upon a consideration of the whole case, the court below should have set aside the verdict of the jury.

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Decided 1862-07-15

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Bates, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The petition contains two counts. The first count charges *478a mutual contract to marry between the plaintiff and. defendant, and a breach of the contract by the defendant, who married another woman; and prays judgment for two thousand dollars damages. The second count charges that the defendant debauched and carnally knew the plaintiff, whereby she became pregnant with child and was delivered of two children ; and prays judgment that defendant pay one hundred dollars per year for seven years for the maintenance of the children.

¶3The defendant answered and put in issue the material allegations of both counts of the petition. The case was tried by a jury, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff on the first count, and no verdict given on the second count.

¶4A number of instructions were given to the jury, and in some of them the defendant was said to be liable in a promise to marry the plaintiff without any corresponding promise on the part of the plaintiff to marry the defendant. For this cause the judgment must be reversed, without specifying other errors with which the case is full from the petition to the final judgment.

¶5The judg’ment of the court below will be reversed and the cause remanded.

Judges Bay and Dryden concur.
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