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48 Mo. 298

Arthur v. Rickards

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided August 15, 1871

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1871-08-15

I. This cause should be dismissed from this court, because the record shows no final judgment from which a writ of error will lie. (Whittel’s Pr. 212, 407, 500.) The transcript of the record must show in this court that final judgment has been entered in the court below.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1902

2 state decisions

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Hardwicke, for plaintiff in error, · Decided 1871-08-15

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Currier, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The court sustained a demurrer to the petition and dismissed the suit. The judgment of dismissal was informal, but it was final and fatal to the plaintiff’s action. The dismissal terminated the suit in the Circuit Court, and the plaintiff was compelled either to submit to the consequences or bring the cause here.

¶3The defendant demurred upon the ground that another suit was then pending between the same parties and for the same cause of action. It is not pretended that the petition shows any such fact. The demurrer should therefore have been overruled.

¶4*300The statute is clear and express on this point. (Gren. Stat. 186&, p. 658, § 6.)

¶5Judgment reversed and cause remanded.

The other judges concur.
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