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38 Mo. App. 595

Gifford v. Weber

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided January 6, 1890

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1890-01-06

— Hon. J. M. Davis, Judge. Plaintiff sued the defendant before a justice of the peace for damages, by reason of the negligence of defendant in permitting fire to escape from his premises onto the plaintiff’s premises and destroying the plaintiff’s property. Damages were laid at $54.60. On the application of defendant, a change of venue was awarded, and the cause transferred to another justice.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1913

3 state decisions

Relies on Chinn v. Davis · Alderman v. Cox

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1890-01-06

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Gill, J. —

¶1I. The matter relied upon for reversal is this, as claimed by defendant: That it was admitted at the trial, that, if plaintiff was entitled to recovery at all, his damages were as plaintiff claimed, $54.60, whereas the jury, while finding for the plaintiff, assessed the damages at only one dollar.

¶2As authoritatively settled in this state, defendant cannot complain of this. Alderman v. Cox, 74 Mo. 78; Chinn v. Paris, 21 Mo. App. 365.

¶3II. The other point suggested in defendant’s printed argument, to-wit, the insufficiency of the service of notice by the justice of the peace, as to-when the cause was set for trial before said justice, cannot be considered by us, for the reason that no such question is presented in the assignment of errors.

¶4Defendant filed here a formal assignment of errors, and plaintiff in due time filed his “joinder in error.” The issues then for this court were made, and defendant cannot now present a point not included in said assignment of errors.

¶5Judgment affirmed.'

All concur.
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