Missouri Court of Appeals November 9, 1885 (Selders v. Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad)

I.

Hall, J.

The defendant asks for a reversal of the judgment in this case, because the fifth clause of section 2839 of the Revised Statutes, which says that such-actions as the present “shall be brought before a justice of the peace of the township in which the injury happened or any adjoining township,” has never been enacted by the legislature; and that if it‘has been so enacted that the