Parmer v. Bean

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered against the plaintiff-appellant, Doyle Parmer, by the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County. In June, 1980, the appellant filed a common law tort claim against the defendants-respondents, Frank and Mary Bean, alleging he was injured as a result of the respondents’ negligence in modifying a saw used by him in the course of his employment by respondents. As part of their answer the respondents asserted that the tort cause of action was barred by the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, chap. 287, RSMo (1978).

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