Lockhart v. Kansas City

This is an action for $50,000.00 damages for personal injuries and disease, claimed to have been caused by conditions under which plaintiff worked as janitor in the chemical building at defendant’s water purification plant. There was a jury verdict for defendant, but the court sustained plaintiff’s motion for new trial on the ground of error in refusing five instructions requested by plaintiff. Defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff alleged that substances prepared and used by defendant caused deleterious and poisonous dust in the building in which, plaintiff worked so that it was inhaled by him in…