44 Mo. App. 496 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1891
This was an action of unlawful detainer, commenced before a justice of the peace and tried de novo on an appeal to the circuit court. The trial in the circuit court resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The jury assessed the monthly rental value of the premises at $10. The court entered judgment for the possession of the premises and for the monthly rental value, at $10 a month instead of entering judgment for double the monthly rental value, as required by the statute. 2 R. S. 1889, sec. 5108. Prom this judgment an appeal was taken by the defendant, and the record proper only is brought
This motion is overruled. There is no principle of appellate procedure known to us under which the respondent, who does not appeal, can assign errors upon the record in this court. The appellant has brought us. a supplemental record certified by the clerk of the court in which this cause was tried, showing that such a motion was filed in vacation in that court. As that motion is not brought here by a bill of exceptions, we cannot even look at it for any purpose at all. Whatever remedy the respondent has in this case is evidently suggested by the course which he took in the circuit court; to file a motion there to enter the proper judgment, which the court has power to do, in case it finds from other matters of record that the proper judgment was directed and that the error in the judgment entry is a mere misprision of the clerk. With the concurrence of all the judges the motion is overruled.
But the appellant having filed no assignment of errors, statement or brief as required by law, it is ordered that the appeal be dismissed.