Whiteley v. Eagle-Picher Lead Co.

This is an appeal from the order of the circuit court of Jasper county sustaining defendants’, joint special demurrer to plaintiff’s petition in which plaintiff seeks to recover damages for an occupational disease alleged to have been contracted by him. Separate demurrers were filed' alleging that the petition does not state sufficient facts to cohstituté a cause of action against the corporate defendant and the individual defendants, but no ruling was made by the court on either of these demurrers. ' Subsequently, an amended special demurrer to the petition by all of the defendants was…