Greenan v. Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.

Action for damages for personal injury. The jury found for plaintiff and assessed his damages at $12,000. A remittitur of $3,000 was made; motion for a new trial overruled and defendant appealed.

Defendant manufactured fighter plane turrets at its plant in St. Louis, and plaintiff was an employee in the plant. April 3, 1944. while lowering a turret, with a hoist, into what is termed a rolling fixture, one side of the turret dropped down and caught plaintiff's hand. Small horseshoe like lugs attached to cables pending from the hoist, fitted over the eye of the eyebolts, which were permanently…