Johannsen v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Co.

Otto Johannsen was employed by the Denison Auto Company, distributors of Sinclair petroleum products, including gasoline. He operated a truck equipped with a tank, by means of which ’he transported and delivered petroleum products. The Denison Auto Company had a bulk plant on a siding, or industrial track, on the Illinois Central railroad in the town of Denison, Iowa, where it maintained tanks capable of holding large quantities of gasoline and which were filled from tank cars on the'railroad siding. On the 30th day of April 1936, Thomas Lorenzen was in the employ at Denison, Iowa, of the…