Dufras v. Washington

Supreme Court of Missouri

Dufras v. Washington

12 Mo. 572

CourtSupreme Court of Missouri

DecidedOctober 15, 1849

StatusPublished

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Dufras v. Washington, 12 Mo. 572 (Mo. 1849).

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Judge Birch

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was originally instituted before “ the law comniissioner of St. Louis county, ” where Washington, the plaintiff below, had a judgment, as he had subsequently an appeal to the circuit court.

Upon examining the record, the declaration is perceived to be, in "substance and in form, for trespass, false imprisonment—and the law commissioner having no jurisdiction of such a Cáse, the judgment of the circuit court must needs he reversed, without reference to the timé ’the motion was made, or any other consideration.

It is accordingly reversed.

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Judge Birch

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was originally instituted before “ the law comniissioner of St. Louis county, ” where Washington, the plaintiff below, had a judgment, as he had subsequently an appeal to the circuit court.

Upon examining the record, the declaration is perceived to be, in "substance and in form, for trespass, false imprisonment—and the law commissioner having no jurisdiction of such a Cáse, the judgment of the circuit court must needs he reversed, without reference to the timé ’the motion was made, or any other consideration.

It is accordingly reversed.

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