Missouri Pac. R.R. Co., Thompson v. Sullivan

Appellee, Martin Sullivan, filed suit in tlie Nevada circuit court against appellants for injuries lie received on account of the alleged negligence of appellants, when he fell through a manhole of the water tank on the tender of an engine used to switch cars in the yards at Hope, Arkansas.

The negligence of appellants, as set up in the complaint, is as follows: "That appellee while working with the engine doing switching saw, while on the ground, that a clinker hook was hanging over the edge of the tank attached to the engine, about three or four feet on the fireman’s side, in a dangerous…