Garren v. Ottumwa Gas Co.

1. Master and servant : hidden and lurking dangers. 1. Plaintiff alleges, substantially, that, on November 17, 1913, he was an employee of defendant’s, engaged as a laborer in digging ditches and doing work outside of defendant’s plant; that, in the manufacture of gas, defendant used a metallic boiler, or tar receptacle, about 10 feet long and 3 feet in diameter, sitting upon end upon a cement foundation about 3 feet high; that the fop on said boiler or tar tank was merely a lid, calked around the edges, with no rivets to hold the same on, and that said tar head ivas not securely fastened to…