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The Missouri appellate court affirmed the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission's denial of workers' compensation benefits, finding sufficient evidence supported the conclusion that claimant's hearing loss did not meet the statutory threshold and the workplace accident was not the prevailing factor in causing his tinnitus.
Reported from Nisi Prius by Goodenow, J. Trover, to recovér certain railroad bonds. The most material facts, appearing from the report, are, in substance, that the plaintiffs hired of the defendants, on the 24th day of September, 1855, one thousand dollars, upon their promissory note, signed for them, by their treasurer, as principal, and by seven persons, as sureties. [From the testimony in the case, it appeared that the sureties were directors of the plaintiff corporation.] The plaintiffs pledged to the bank, as collateral security for the payment of the note, $2000, par value, in bonds of the plaintiff railroad company, with semiannual interest coupons attached. On the 15th of December following, the defendants discounted for the plaintiffs a similar note for $500, with $1000 in bonds, as collateral. And, on the 17th of January, 1856, a third note for $1000 was discounted, with $2000 in bonds as collateral for its payment. These notes were renewed from time to time, the bonds and coupons remaining pledged for the security of each successive note. On January 24th, 1857, the above notes were renewed by a similar note for $2800, on four months, and this was renewed May 23d, 1857, by a similar note for $3000, on six months, maturing November 14th, 1857, the bonds and coupons remaining pledged as collateral security for each successive note. This last note remained overdue till December 28th, 1857, when it was renewed by two notes, each dated December 26th, 1857, payable in six months, one for $2000, and the other for $1000, both of a similar character to the one first described. To secure these last two notes the aforesaid bonds and coupons of the plaintiff railroad company, amounting at par to $6000, were left pledged in the hands of the bank as collateral security for said notes. On a portion of the bonds, the coupons were payable on April 1,-1857, and thence semiannually eve'ry six months; and on the remainder of the bo
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