Zeis v. St. Louis Brewing Ass'n

This is a suit that was instituted in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, by the respondent against the appellant, seeking to recover damages in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for an injury to his eye, caused by the alleged negligence of appellant, in furnishing him a weak and insecure box, in which he was required to haul and deliver beer, which gave way or broke on account of weakness, while the box was being loaded into the wagon, and allowed the bottles of beer to fall therefrom, upon a granitoid floor, which broke one or more of the bottles, and caused a piece of glass to…