Petty v. Boeving

Respondent brought this suit to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him while working as a cotton-ginner in appellants’ gin near Poplar Bluff, Missouri. While attempting to pull a stick out of a boll extractor, an instrument placed on top of the gin stand for the purpose of separating the cotton from the bolls, he lost four fingers off his right hand.

Upon a trial before a jury in the Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri, respondent recovered judgment for $5000 from which, after unsuccessful motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, appellants brought the case here…