Funk v. Crescent Packing Co.

This is an action on the case for personal injuries received by the plaintiff (the defendant in error), while working for the defendant (the plaintiff in error) in its plant. The declaration recites that on the 30th day of January the defendant was engaged in the meat packing business, in the city of Bast St. Louis, operating a meat packing plant, and had therein engines, boilers, shafts, pulleys and belts, used in its business; that it was its duty to furnish the plaintiff a reasonably safe place to do his work, and reasonably safe tools and machinery; that on the twenty-first day of…