Steffen Ex Rel. Steffen v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Plaintiff appeals from a verdict and judgment for defendant. She sued for $75,000 damages for injuries alleged to have been suffered while she was at work as a switchboard operator in the Grand-McRee Telephone Exchange of defendant in St. Louis. Plaintiff, at the trial, offered evidence tending to prove the allegations of her petition, namely, that while she was seated at defendant's switchboard on the afternoon of January 29, 1925, and was in the act of connecting an incoming call, there came from the head set which she wore, "an unusual and extraordinary violent noise, contrary to the usual…