Todd v. Curators of Mo. University

Plaintiff sued to recover for personal injuries alleging : that defendant is a corporation, created by law as an educational institution, with power to contract and sue and be sued; that it conducts the State University and has control of the campus and buildings thereon; that it employed plaintiff to make certain repairs on one of said buildings; that under the law it was the duty of defendant to furnish plaintiff a safe place to work; that defendant negligently furnished plaintiff an insecure scaffold (described) upon which to-work; that said scaffold fell with plaintiff and he suffered…