Bobos Ex Rel. Enders v. Krey Packing Co.

Action for personal injuries alleged to have been negligently caused by defendant.

On the 29th day of October, 1920, one Beinert, a servant of the defendant corporation, was, pursuant to his employment, driving one of defendant’s electric trucks eastwardly along Bremen Avenue in the city of St. Louis, hauling the products of its main plant at 20th and Bremen to its cold-storage plant at Broadway and Brem-. en. The driver sat in a cab which was open on both sides and which was about four and a half feet from the ground. On the side of the truck there was a step, “a small step like on a buggy,…