Farmer v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This action was instituted on January 13, 1933, in the Circuit Court of St. Francois County, where, upon the application of defendant, a change of venue was granted to the- Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Division No. One, where it was tried before the court and a jury on October 17, 1933.

The petition set out that defendant was a foreign corporation duly licensed to do business in Missouri; that for a long time prior to March 31, 1932, plaintiff was an employee of the St. Joseph Lead Company, a corporation, as a laborer at its mines at Herculaneum; that on or about October 1, 1919,…