Baker v. Scott County Milling Co.

Plaintiff sued the defendant corporation in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis to recover for personal injuries sustained while working in the wrecking of an elevator of defendant at Sikeston, Missouri. The jury returned a verdict for defendant, and from the judgment thereon plaintiff appealed.

Defendant had on its premises two steel elevators or grain tanks, generally referred to in the evidence as elevators, which it desired to have taken down, and to that end engaged one Otis Bryant, who employed plaintiff and two other laborers to assist with the work. There is sharp contention as…