Goad-Ballinger Post 69 v. McNeill

1 Citing case

  1. O'Connor v. Miroslaw

    388 S.W.3d 541 (Mo. Ct. App. 2012)   Cited 3 times

    “De minimis non curat lex—the law is not concerned with trifles—is a maxim of the common law.” Goad–Ballinger Post 69 v. McNeill, 716 S.W.2d 300, 304 (Mo.App. W.D.1986) (citing Lambert v. Hartshorne, 65 Mo. 549, 551 (1877)); See also Woodbury v. Portland Marine Society, 90 Me. 18, 37 A. 323, 325 (1897) (“Equity does not stoop to pick up pins.”).Furthermore, it would be unreasonable and unjust to apply the source of funds rule to Westover to increase Wife's share of the property division and leave unchanged the court's allocation of interests in Baltimore were identical errors were committed by the trial court in its allocation of interests.