Stone v. Blackmer & Post Pipe Co.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court reversing an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission denying an award to the widow of an employee who was killed by the falling of a brick smokestack which was blown down by a tornado.

On the afternoon of September 29, 1927, about one o’clock, a tornado occurred in the city of St. Louis which swept in a general direction from the southwest part of the city to the northeast. In its course it did considerable damage, injuring several hundred people and caused the loss of some seventy-three lives. The tornado started at a point a…