Watrous v. City of St. Louis

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries brought by Floyd Gregory Watrous, an employee of Robert Koch Hospital, against The City of St. Louis, which owns and operates the hospital.

The petition is based upon negligence iij failing to exercise ordinary care to furnish to plaintiff a reasonably safe place in which to work and reasonably safe tools and appliances as a result of which plaintiff, while in the performance of his duties, fell into an incinerator and was injured. The Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis sustained the City’s motion to dismiss the…