Cain v. Humes-Deal Co.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff was an employee of defendant and reported for work, about eight o'clock, on the morning of December 9, 1926, at the Voshon school, which was being constructed in the city of St. Louis. Defendant was the contractor building it. Plaintiff had been transferred there, two days before, from another building where he had been working for defendant. The foreman, under whom plaintiff was working that morning, sent plaintiff and a fellow employee, McDaniel, to the auditorium to clean the floor. On the two previous days plaintiff had been…