Henson v. Armour Packing Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Eon. W. B. Teasdale, Judge. (1) The servant assumes the ordinary risks and dangers of Ms employment that are known to> him and those that might be known to him by the exercise of ordinary care and foresight.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Eon. W. B. Teasdale, Judge. (1) The servant assumes the ordinary risks and dangers of Ms employment that are known to> him and those that might be known to him by the exercise of ordinary care and foresight. When he engages in a work to make a place that is known to be dangerous, safe, or in a work that in its progress necessarily changes the character for safety of the place in which it is performed as the work progresses, the hazard of the dangerous place and the increased hazard of the place made dangerous by the work, are the ordinary and known dangers…
1Opinion of the CourtEllison, J.
— The defendant, through a number-of laborers and a foreman, was engaged in digging an excavation about forty-five feet square and twenty-five-feet deep in which to lay a foundation upon which to-construct a large -smokestack. At a depth of near twenty-five feet on three sides and sixteen feet on the remaining side, sloping thence from the bottom of the sixteen-feet to the main depth of twenty-five feet, it became-necessary to more firmly secure the bank or wall by additional braces to the shoring which had been put in to-prevent caving of the bank. Plaintiff was assigned to-do the additional…
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