Hoffman v. Peerless White Lime Co.

Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff and alleged to have been caused by defendant's negligence. Plaintiff was employed as a common laborer in defendant's quarry near the city of Ste. Genevieve, and, at the time of his injury, was engaged in shoveling spawls, or small rocks, from the floor at the bottom of the quarry into a small tram car, which was used in transporting the broken rock to defendant's lime kilns nearby. The suit was originally instituted against two corporate defendants as joint tortfeasors, but, prior to the trial, dismissal was made as to one…