Schneider v. Pevely Dairy Co.

The plaintiff in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis recovered judgment from which the appeal is taken, for $12,000 for injuries received while employed in operating one of defendant’s milk wagons. A defect, it is claimed, in the step of the milk wagon caused the plaintiff to fall, June 23, 1924.

He testified that he was backing out of the wagon carrying a crate container filled with milk bottles, and while stepping down and holding to a hand rail with one hand the step swayed in underneath the wagon, his foot slipped, he lost his balance and fell backward on the sidewalk, causing…