74 Mo. 179 | Mo. | 1881
This suit originated before a justice of the peace on two notes executed by defendant and J. M. Shepherd, for $50 each, payable to plaintiff’s intestate. They were given for the balance of the purchase money of a
An application for a continuance, made by defendant, at the term of the court at which the trial was had, was overruled, and defendant contends that it should have been granted. The deposition of one Callahan had been taken in defendant’s behalf, which, on motion of plaintiff’, was suppressed, and the continuance was asked on account of the suppression of the deposition, and the absence of witness, then a resident of the state of Kansas.