61 Mo. App. 464 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1895
—The facts in this case are that an attachment suit for $35 was begun before a justice of
An objection is made by respondent in this court to the abstract of appellant, on the ground that it nowhere states that the bill of exceptions taken on the trial of this cause was properly filed. This point is without any merit, as the additional abstract filed by respondent expressly shows that the bill of exceptions was refiled after certain corrections, “within the time limited by the court for the filing of the bill of exceptions in the appeal herein.” This cured the omission of such a statement in appellant’s abstract.
Appellant complains of the action of the court in dismissing the suit upon the motion of respondent. This error is well assigned. The record shows that the parties appeared generally in the justice’s court, whereto
Conceding that the return on the writ of attachment was fatally defective in not showing a levy of the writ on the property and credits in the hands of the garnishee (Gates v. Tusten, 89 Mo. 21; Norvell v. Porter, 62 Mo. 311; Connor v. Pope, 18 Mo. App. 89), this could not affect the rights of the parties to a trial on the merits. :■ For the error of the circuit court in dismissing the cause, the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded, when, if the facts justify, the return on the writ of attachment may be amended.