Griffin v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.

This was an action by the appellant against the appellee to recover damages on account of a personal injury suffered by the appellant at a gravel pit.

It appears from the complaint that the appellant was employed by the appellee to assist in loading gravel upon its gravel train to be distributed along the line of its road. The bed of gravel in which the appellant was employed to work was nearly twenty feet in thickness, covered by a stratum of clay between four and five feet in thickness. The gravel was loaded upon the cars by means of a large shovel at*327tached to a crane, by which it was…