127 Mo. App. 664 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1908
Plaintiff recovered judgment against defendants in an action on a promissory note brought before a justice of the peace in Cole county, had execution issued by the justice which was returned “not satisfied,” filed a transcript of the judgment in the office of the clerk of the circuit court and had execution issued thereon. On motion of defendant presented to the circuit court, the execution was quashed and the cause is brought here by plaintiff on appeal from the judgment entered on the motion.
The material part of the transcript of the judgment rendered by the justice is as follows: “On 28th day of August, 1900, issued a writ of summons, against the defendants, returnable on the 11th day of September,
It is the contention of defendants that the record “discloses that the justice had no judisdiction over the
We shall take judicial notice of the fact that Cole county, at the time of the proceedings in question, had less than fifty thousand inhabitants and, consequently, that the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace in that county is controlled by section 3835, and not by section 3836, which applies to counties or cities having over fifty thousand inhabitants.
The record of the justice recites that the suit is founded on a note, but fails to state the amount of the principal, or that the note stipulated for the payment of interest and, for aught disclosed, the entire amount of the judgment rendered might have been for the face of the note exclusive of any interest. If, in an effort to
The learned trial judge committed no error in sustainiug the motion to quash and, accordingly, the other-judges concurring, the judgment is affirmed.