Mid-Continent Pipe Line Co. v. Wilkerson

Defendant in error, as plaintiff, sued plaintiff in error, as defendant, in tort for personal injury and therein on trial to jury recovered a verdict in the amount of $75,000, and from the judgment thereon this appeal is prosecuted. Herein the plaintiff in error will be referred to as defendant, and defendant in error as plaintiff.

The defendant is engaged in the business of transporting crude oil through its pipe lines, and on September 8, 1943, the date the accident occurred, there was being installed in the line what is known as a “scraper trap.” Engaged in the work of installation were…