Pryor v. National Lead Co.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

Wilse Pryor brought this action against the National Lead Company and the St. Louis Smelting & Refining Company to recover damages for an occupational disease alleged to have been contracted by the plaintiff while employed in the defendants’ lead mines. The case was commenced in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, and removed, as a separable controversy, to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by the Lead Company, a foreign corporation doing business in Missouri.

The plaintiff, in his amended petition, alleged: That on September…