Strode v. Columbia Box Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis County Circuit Court. — Hon. Jno. W. McElhmney, Judge. Tbe court erred in refusing to give the peremptory instruction offered by appellant at tbe close of all tbe evidence, (a) Because section 6483, requiring beltings to be guarded, bas no application to a case of this kind where tbe injury results to an employee from tbe breaking of a belt. Neeman v. Smith, 50 Mo. 528; Fusz v. Spaunhorst, 67 Mo. 267; State v. Hayes, 81 Mo. 584; Potter v. Douglas.
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Appeal from St. Louis County Circuit Court. — Hon. Jno. W. McElhmney, Judge. Tbe court erred in refusing to give the peremptory instruction offered by appellant at tbe close of all tbe evidence, (a) Because section 6483, requiring beltings to be guarded, bas no application to a case of this kind where tbe injury results to an employee from tbe breaking of a belt. Neeman v. Smith, 50 Mo. 528; Fusz v. Spaunhorst, 67 Mo. 267; State v. Hayes, 81 Mo. 584; Potter v. Douglas. County, 87 Mo. 243; Dillon v. Coal Tar Co. (N. Y.), 73 N. P. 978. (b) Because tbe evidence in this case showed no violation…
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
This action was begun in the name of John Findlay, a minor, by his curator, Garrard Strode, public administrator of the city of St. Louis. The relief sought was damages sustained from a personal injury to the minor in appellant’s factory, an establishment for the manufacture of boxes. When the accident occurred Findlay was working on a machine on the first floor of the building. A drum or pulley about a foot in diameter rotated on an axle overhead. This drum was from a foot to a foot and one-half higher than his head and the same distance to the right of where he stood when at his ordinary…
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- American Brewing Ass'n v. TalbotSupreme Court of Missouri · 1897
- Lore v. American Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1901
- Graney v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1900
- Robertson v. FordIndiana Supreme Court · 1905
- Dillon v. . National Coal Tar Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
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- Strode v. Columbia Box Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1913
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