Quinlan v. American Car & Foundry Co.
Decision Date | 10 April 1920 |
Citation | 225 S.W. 440 |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Parties | QUINLAN v. AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY CO. et al, |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; George H. Shields, Judge.
Action by Clara E. Quinlan against the American Car & Foundry Company and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Affirmed.
The plaintiff instituted this suit in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, against the defendant, to recover $10,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been negligently inflicted upon her husband, which resulted in his death.
The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for the sum sued for, and the defendant duly appealed tile cause to this court.
The charging clause of the petition is in this language:
"Plaintiff further says that said injuries which caused the death of the deceased were directly caused by the negligence of the defendant, or its superintendent, or foreman, in charge of the work in which deceased was engaged, in ordering the hot metal poured in said mold or pattern or wheel when he knew, or by the exercise of ordinary care could have known, that it would explode."
And the answer was a general denial, and the following plea of contributory negligence says:
The evidence for the plaintiff was substantially as follows:
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