Breen v. St. Louis Cooperage Co.

— The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for personal injuries caused to him by the breaking of a shaft of a planing-machine in defendant’s factory, where the plaintiff was employed as a laborer in working said machine. The only errors assigned by the appealing defendant are that the court refused to sustain its demurrer, to the evidence at the close of plaintiff’s case, and at the close of the entire evidence in the cause.

The alleged negligence on part of the defendant, which brought. about the injury complained of, is thus stated in the plaintiff’s petition: “That said…