101 Mo. App. 357 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1903
This action was brought on an account before a justice of the peace, who rendered judgment for defendants, whereupon the plaintiff appealed to the circuit court of Pemiscot county. It is conceded by appellants that respondent filed proper affidavit for appeal from the judgment rendered by the magistrate, but by the latter, respondent had been permitted to prosecute his suit in forma pauperis and no bond for appeal to the circuit court was exacted. Appellants moved to dismiss in the circuit court for failure by plaintiff to execute and file an appeal bond before the justice, but the motion was overruled; a jury being waived, trial was had before the court, which rendered judgment for plaintiff.. Appellants filed motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment, incorporating in both the ground that the appeal from the justice’s court was improperly taken and that the motion to dismiss should have been sustained.
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The trial court, therefore, erred in overruling ap