Goransson v. Riter-Conley Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. H. D. Wood, Judge. (1) The master must furnish reasonably safe tools, and keep them safe. The servant, relying on this rule, has a right to presume the master has discharged his duty toward him. If the master furnishes a tool which he knows, or, by the exercise of reasonable care, might know, is defective, or not reasonably safe, he is liable to the servant for any injury resulting from such defect.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. H. D. Wood, Judge. (1) The master must furnish reasonably safe tools, and keep them safe. The servant, relying on this rule, has a right to presume the master has discharged his duty toward him. If the master furnishes a tool which he knows, or, by the exercise of reasonable care, might know, is defective, or not reasonably safe, he is liable to the servant for any injury resulting from such defect. Duerst v. Stamping Co., 163 Mo. 607; P’auck v. St. Louis Dressed Beef Co., 159 Mo. 467; Franklin v. Railroad, 97 Mo. App. 480; Swadley v. Railroad,…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
— This is an action for ten thousand dollars damages, for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, on the tenth of July, 1901, while in the employ of the defendant. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the evidence, at the close of the plaintiff’s case, the plaintiff took a nonsuit, with leave, and after an unsuccessful motion to set the same aside, appealed to this court.
The petition alleges the relation of master and *303servant, and that the defendant was engaged in the erection of a gas reservoir, at the corner of Ohontean and Newstead avenues in St. Louis, and that the defendant employed…
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