Gordon v. Muehling Packing Co.

This case is here on defendant's appeal from a jury verdict and court judgment in plaintiff's favor in a damage suit for personal injuries. Plaintiff's injuries arose from his hand being caught and mashed in a sausage-grinding machine, which he was operating in defendant's meat packing plant in a suburb of St. Louis. There is no question as to the fact or manner of plaintiff's injuries. While the action is based on defendant's negligence, the petition is framed and trial was had on the doctrine of res ipsaloquitur rather than on specific negligence.

The petition alleges, the evidence supports,…