State Ex Rel. Schlueter Manufacturing Co. v. Beck

Original proceeding in prohibition. .Charles E. Slater, as plaintiff, sued the relator herein, the Schlueter Manufacturing Compand, as defendant, in the Circuit Court of St. Louis for damages, alleging that through the negligence of the latter he had contracted an occupational disease while employed as a paint sprayer in its paint shop in St. Louis. By means of a spray gun he sprayed bronze, aluminum, lac-enamel, lacquer enamel, and zinc paints. In his petition he charged that as a result of inhaling the fumes or spray from these painting materials, or in some way by coming in contact with…