Daugherty v. Lanning-Harris Coal & Grain Co.

Judgment by default was rendered for $5000 against defendant, and three days later at the same term, a motion was filed to set the judgment aside. Later in the same term an amended motion to set aside was filed and after a hearing thereon the court overruled it. From an order overruling this motion the defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff, on September 7, 1921, filed suit in the circuit court of Lafayette county, Missouri, for $10,000 damages, alleging that while employed in defendant’s coal mine as the operator of an electrical coal-cutting machine using a high-tension current of electricity, he…