Wolf v. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works

This case comes to the writer upon reassignment. Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment of the circuit court, city of St. Louis, in the sum of $12,500. The verdict of the jury was for $25,000 but was reduced by remittitur. Plaintiff sued for injuries to his health caused by contracting an occupational disease while he was employed in defendant's chemical works in St. Louis. Defendant's principal complaint is that the trial court erred in refusing to sustain its demurrer to the evidence.

Plaintiff, by his second amended petition, charged that for about six years prior to August 31, 1923, he…