Woehler v. City of St. Louis

This is an action for personal injuries for $25,000. Judgment was for defendant and plaintiff has appealed. In his petition plaintiff alleged that on April 8, 1932, he was in the employ of the defendant city and was working on defendant’s truck helping to load bleacher seats at a baseball diamond in Fair Grounds Park in the city of St. Louis when the truck was started suddenly and without warning, causing him to be thrown to the ground and injured. The answer was a general denial. Plaintiff’s evidence was that the bleachers were dismantled and the component parts placed in several piles about…