State Ex Rel. Boeving v. Cox

Rufus Petty recovered judgment in the Circuit Court of Butler County against his employers, the relators here, for $5,000 for personal injuries sustained through alleged negligence. Appeal was granted to- the Springfield Court of Appeals, where the judgment was affirmed. Relators now seek to quash the opinion of respondents.

Petty was employed as a cotton ginner in relator’s gin near Poplar Bluff. In attempting to pull a stick out of a hole in the screen of the boll extractor, he lost four fingers off his rigjxt hand. Respondents considered only one allegation of negligence contended in the…