Supreme Court of Missouri March 30, 1935 (Wolf v. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works)

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This case comes to the writer upon reassignment. Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment of the circuit court, city of St. Louis, in the sum of $12,500. The verdict of the jury was for $25,000 but was reduced by remittitur. Plaintiff sued for injuries to his health caused by contracting an occupational disease while he was employed in defendant's chemical works in St. Louis.