Brizendine v. Union Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The deceased had for about two years worked in the defendant’s coal chute at Salina. There was a system of buckets for lifting the coal, which buckets when loaded weighed from eighty to a hundred pounds each and were elevated *692by means of machinery somewhat extensive in size and complicated in character. The allegations in part were in substance that the buckets caught on some obstacle in the bottom of the pit, thereby stopping the machinery, and while the deceased was attempting to remove this obstacle the buckets which had been filled with…