Zerbe v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
Zerbe v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
Opinion of the Court
This action is for damages caused by defendant killing plaintiff’s mule by running over or against it with a train of cars. Plaintiff recovered and defendant prosecutes a writ of error. There is no bill of exceptions, leaving simply the record proper.
The petition claimed the sum of $65, whereas the judgment rendered was for the sum of $71.12. This was error.
We are cited to the cases of Poulson v. Collier, 18 Mo. App. 583 and Girvin v. Refrigerator Co., 66 Mo. App. 315, as sustaining the offer to remit. Neither case is applicable. The record and transcript proceedings of the entire trial were before the court in those cases and enabled the court to form some conclusion as to what was done and considered by the jury. Here we have nothing, as before stated, but the record proper. The judgment is reversed and cause remanded.
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