Bassett v. Moberly Paving Brick Co.

This is an action in damages for personal injuries. Defendant is an incorporated company engaged in the manufacture of brick from shale, and was operating near the city limits of Moberly, Randolph County, Mo.

In going to the shale beds from Moberly, persons drive west on Fisk avenue to the end thereof, then south on Park avenue to the south limits of the city, where Park avenue merges into a neighborhood road that runs south on the west side of defendant’s shale pit. This work had been carried on by defendant for many years and as a result there was a deep excavation in the surface of the…