Petrilli v. Swift & Co.

This is an action for damages by an employee in defendant’s meat packing plant at St. Joseph. There was a verdict for defendant, and plaintiff filed motion for new trial, which the court sustained without assigning a reason therefor. Thereupon the defendant appealed.

The petition alleged, in substance, that it was plaintiff’s duty as an employee in defendant’s plant to pull truck loads of meat from one place to another; that it was defendant’s duty to furnish help to plaintiff, sufficient to render it reasonably safe; that on the day he was injured, plaintiff was engaged in ^pulling a truck…