Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Company v. Tillman

This suit was brought -by appellee against appellants in the circuit court of Clark county for an injury to his lungs occasioned by strangling on coal oil taken into his mouth in siphoning coal oil from a 55-gallon barrel into a 5-gallon can by means of a small copper tube about four feet in length and %-inch in diamé ter alleged to have been negligently furnished him by appellant with which to transfer coal oil from the larger receptacle to the smaller one without first warning him of the danger incident to making the transfer.

The specific allegation of negligence contained in the amended…