32 Mo. 477 | Mo. | 1862
delivered the opinion of the court.
The petition contains two counts. The first count charges
The defendant answered and put in issue the material allegations of both counts of the petition. The case was tried by a jury, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff on the first count, and no verdict given on the second count.
A number of instructions were given to the jury, and in some of them the defendant was said to be liable in a promise to marry the plaintiff without any corresponding promise on the part of the plaintiff to marry the defendant. For this cause the judgment must be reversed, without specifying other errors with which the case is full from the petition to the final judgment.
The judg’ment of the court below will be reversed and the cause remanded.