Aldridge's Adm'r v. Midland Blast Furnace Co.

This is an action brought in the circuit court of Dent county by E. N. Aldridge against the Midland Blast Furnace Company, for personal injuries received by him June 23rd, 1877, while working in an iron-ore bank of defendant, in Dent county. The cause was removed by change of venue to Phelps county, and the trial begun on plaintiff’s amended petition. The amended petition stated that while plaintiff was at work by defendant’s direction in the Millsap bank at the foot of an embankment or wall of earth, four feet back from the face of which was a crevice partially separating the embankment from…