Dockery v. Lowenstein
Dockery v. Lowenstein
Opinion of the Court
This appeal was brought here on a short transcript, which shows the appeal was taken from the judgment on the merits. A complete abstract of the record has been filed by appellant and from this abstract, as well as from the briefs of counsel, we learn that the appeal, instead of being taken from the judgment, was talien from an order granting a new trial and arresting the judgment. The action was instituted before a justice of the peace to recover rent for certain premises in St. Louis, the statement alleging appellant abandoned the premises without respondent’s consent
“Which said motions of plaintiff for a new trial on eighth ground assigned and in arrest of judgment, on the first ground assigned, and of defendant in arrest of judgment on the second ground assigned, the court, on the 24th day of May, 1905, sustained, to which ruling and order of the court in sustaining' plaintiff’s said motions, the defendant, by his counsel, then and there duly excepted.”
For several reasons this appeal cannot be considered. The statutes require an appellant who adopts the short transcript method of appealing, to file in the upper court a transcript showing a copy of the record entry of the judgment or order or decree appealed from in the cause. [R. S. 1899, sec. 813.] As stated, it is conceded the order appealed from was the one granting a new trial and arresting the judgment on motion of respondent. No such order is contained in the transcript. Moreover, the abstract of the record presented by appellant shows the judgment was arrested not only on motion of respondent, but on his motion too. Further, the abstract of record contains no showing outside the bill of exceptions, of the filing of motions for new trial and in arrest within the time allowed by law. The foregoing defects are fatal to the appeal and it is dismissed. [West Storage Co. v. Glasner, 150 Mo. 426, 52 S. W. 237; Fast v. Gray, 105 Mo. App. 694, 78 S. W. 1048; McCormick, etc., Co. v. Crawford, 98 Mo. App. 319, 72 S. W. 491.]
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