Gaston v. Cooperative Farm Chemicals Ass'n

HOUSER, Commissioner.

In the Circuit Court of Clay County, Missouri Frank L. Gaston filed a common-law suit for $100,000 damages against Cooperative Farm Chemicals Association (hereinafter “Coop”), a Kansas corporation, and other Kansas corporations, charging that defendants negligently inflicted personal injuries upon him. Motions for summary judgment, filed by defendants, were sustained. Plaintiff Gaston has appealed.

The question on appeal: whether it has been shown by unassailable proof, as a matter of law, that plaintiff was a statutory employee of Coop under the Kansas Compensation…