Reichmuth v. Adler

In this suit for personal injuries, tried to a jury in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis, the verdict was for defendant. The trial court sustained plaintiff’s motion for a new trial for the stated reason that “the court erred in giving and reading to the jury instruction No. 3 offered by defendant.” From this order granting a new trial defendant has appealed.

In response to the allegations of his petition, plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove: 'that at the time he was injured he was engaged as an independent contractor in painting the windows on the outside of a two story building…