Willis v. Buchanan County Quarries Co.

This is an action for personal injuries alleged to have been received through the negligence of defendant while plaintiff was working in a-bin shoveling crushed rock. Verdict was for plaintiff in the sum of $12,500 but the trial court required a remittitur of $5000, and after motions in defendant’s behalf for a new trial and in arrest of judgment had been overruled, judgment was entered for $7500. Defendant appeals.

At the time of the alleged injury defendant was operating a rock quarry and crusher about three miles south of the city of St. Joseph', where plaintiff,, a man about thirty-five…