49 Mo. 413 | Mo. | 1872
delivered the opinion of the court.
We see nothing objectionable in the action of the court in reference to its instructions regarding a contract between Younger and Tootle. The evidence shows that Younger did the work, that Tootle recognized him and paid him at different times ; and that was sufficient to warrant the jury in finding a contract between the parties. The real contest in the case relates to the appropriation of payments, and upon, that question I do not think that the court erred. Younger undertook to do the carpenters’ work on a house for Tootle, and the plaintiffs were lumber merchants, and furnished him materials for the same. Younger failed to pay for all the materials, and the plaintiffs filed their lien against the property to secure the payment of the balance. The lien was filed, notice given, and suit brought within the proper time. It seems that Younger was a general contractor, and was building other houses at the same time that he was at work on Tootle’s house,
I think that the court properly instructed the jury in reference to the law governing the appropriation of payments, and the two instructions given by the court of its own motion manifestly placed the case before them correctly.
The record exhibits no error, and the judgment will be affirmed.