Housden v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Plaintiff Vernon Housden instituted this action for $50,000 damages for a heart condition allegedly due to overexertion in the work of loading parcels or cartons of explosives into a truck at the plant of defendant E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company near Carl Junction. The cartons were being loaded into the trailer of a combination tractor-trailer freight-hauling truck operated by Tri-State Warehousing & Distributing Company, plaintiff’s employer.

Generally, plaintiff had averred that defendants, Du Pont and its employee defendant Lloyd H. Swift, were negligent in…