34 Mo. App. 371 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1889
I. The objection to the sufficiency of the statement is not well taken. The suit is for account of goods sold and delivered and the statement is ample to advise the defendant of the matter with which he is charged. R. S. 1879, secs. 2851, 2852; Coughlin v. Lyons, 24 Mo. 533, and other cases decided by the supreme court of Missouri, cited in plaintiff’s brief.
The case reported in 28 Mo. App., p. 521, relied on by defendant’s counsel, it seems was so decided on authority of Hill v. Ore & Steel Co., 90 Mo. 104. But the latter case will not justify this court in holding the statement filed in this cause to be insufficient. The statement' contained in the 24 Mo., supra, was substantially as in the case at bar, and the supreme court held such statement all the law required, and so we hold as to the statement now under consideration.
II. The trial court ruled properly in refusing the application of the administrator of the estate of Averitt & Hall to be made a party defendant in the cause. The plaintiff was seeking to charge the defendant, A. I). Averitt, on an account for a cow sold and delivered to
III. Neither did the circuit court commit error in admitting evidence as to conversations had with Flowers, defendant’s agent, in charge of the butcher shop at the time of the delivery of the cow, nor in submitting the question of Flowers’ authority to receive the animal. It is true, as stated by Judge Norton, in 58 Mo. 385, that to entitle plaintiff to this evidence there must be a prima-facie case of agency shown before the declarations of the agent can be admitted. Flowers was shown to be in charge of the business at the shop — was there alone on the day the cow was delivered, apparently in
Perceiving no errors, the judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.