Ferguson v. Fulton Iron Works

* Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Master and Servant, 39CJ, p. 1116, n. 61; Trial, 38Cyc, p. 1663, n. 24. This is an action for damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff on the twenty-third day of May, 1921, while in the employ of defendant, at its foundry and steel plant in St. Louis County, Missouri. It is alleged that plaintiff was engaged in chipping rough metal projections from metal castings with an automatic air hammer containing a chisel; that it was plaintiff's duty, and he was ordered and directed by defendant, to operate said hammer; that in its usual operation it would not…