Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Romans

The defendant in error recovered the judgment from which this writ of error is prosecuted for damages for a personal injury received by him in the service of the plaintiff in error. The facts .upon which his right of recovery depends are thus stated by the Court of Civil Appeals:

“Plaintiff at the time of the injury was in the employ of defendant, loading cars with gumbo at a plant owned and eontroHed by defendant. At said plant there were three large embankments of burnt gumbo in parallel rows several hundred yards in length probably one hundred feet wide and twelve to fifteen feet high.…