Ryan v. St. Louis Transit Co.

Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Franklin Ferriss, Judge. The court erred in overruling defendant’s demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence in chief. The strongest inference that can he drawn from the whole of the plaintiff’s evidence is that some portion of the insulation had run or dripped from the cable in consequence of the heat or temperature in the basement of the power house;, that the plaintiff’s husband, in some manner not explained by the evidence, allowed the wrench to rest upon the pipe and the other end of the wrench, by his act and that of his working companion, to come…