ST. JOSEPH LEAD COMPANY v. PRATHER

No. 15454.

238 F.2d 301 (1956)

ST. JOSEPH LEAD COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. Perry PRATHER and Maggie Prather, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Marsalek, St. Louis, Mo. (G. W. Marsalek and Moser, Marsalek, Carpenter, Cleary & Carter, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Tyree C. Derrick, St. Louis, Mo. (Frank W. May, Flat River, Mo., on the brief), for appellees.

Before STONE (retired), JOHNSEN, and VOGEL, Circuit Judges.


STONE, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit by the parents of Hubert Dale Prather (between sixteen and seventeen years old) claiming damages for his death caused by an explosion of dynamite blasting caps owned by defendant and stored in a magazine building located on land of defendant in Missouri. From a judgment on the verdict, defendant appeals.

The amended petition was based on the claim that the explosive so stored were a public nuisance; and, "In the alternative...

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