Schey v. Central Coal & Coke Co.

The plaintiff, employed by defendant in its coal mine at Bevier, Missouri, was injured by a premature explosion while charging a drill hole with blasting powder.

The injury occurred August 23, 1917. He sued for damages January 15, 1924.

On a trial in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the court gave an instruction in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence; whereupon the plaintiff took an involuntary -nonsuit with'leave, and appealed from the judgment of dismissal following.

The plaintiff at the time of the injury was between seventeen and…