19 Mo. 525 | Mo. | 1854
delivered the opinion of the court.
Tackett commenced his action against Huesman for a trespass, alleged to have been committed by Huesman on land belonging to said Tackett. The complaint was filed before a justice of the peace in Central township, in St. Louis county, and is as follows :
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“ Enoch Tackett vs. Louis Huesman.
“ Enoch Tackett complains that one Louis Huesman committed, on or about the 25th day of March, 1853, a trespass upon land not his own, to-wit: On the premises of said Tackett, situated in St. Louis county and state of Missouri, by cutting down and carrying away wood, timber, &c., and spliting and putting up rails on the land and premises of said Tackett, said premises lying and being in St. Louis county and state of Missouri, and conveyed to the said Tackett by deed from William Hensley and Lydia Hensley, his wife, on the tenth day of August, 1837, and described in said deed as the south half of the north-west fractional quarter of section thirty, in township forty-five north, of range six east, in the
The justice issued Ms summons on this complaint against the defendant, who being served with the process, appeared and a trial was had between the parties, which resulted in a verdict for the1 plaintiff for ten dollars. An appeal was taken to the law commissioner’s court, where, on the calling of the case, the parties announcing themselves ready for trial, the court, upon the defendant’s motion, dismissed the suit. From this judgment of the law commissioner’s court an appeal was taken, and the case is brought to this court.
Let the judgment be reversed, and the cause remanded ;