Timmermann v. St. Louis Architectural Iron Co.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant. The plaintiff was a structural iron worker, and at the time of his injury was engaged in connecting an iron beam to the top ends of two upright iron beams, or columns, in the construction of a building, spoken of as the Irene Building, in the city of St. Louis. The two columns were about twelve feet in height. The beam resting on the top of them was fourteen or fifteen feet long, and was described as a ten-inch beam, the flanges of which were five…