70 Mo. App. 609 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1897
Plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, sued the defendant upon an alleged contract whereby said defendant agreed to pay the plaintiffs for the boarding, nursing, and expenses incurred in keeping £\nd caring for one Conrad Niemeyer, defendant’s son, who, it was alleged, was sick and afterward died. The circuit court sustained defendant’s demurrer to the petition on the alleged ground that the co plain tiffs, being husband and wife, were improperly joined as parties plaintiff; and said plaintiffs, declining to amend, suffered judgment to go against them and brought the case here by writ of error.
For the error in sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the petition the judgment will be reversed and cause remanded.