Rupp v. Shaffer

In the court below the plaintiff’s decedent was the serv- ■ ant, and the defendant the master and the proprietor of a •slaughter house. The former had sole charge of the process •of rendering lard and of the tank used for that purpose. The tank was cylindrical, eight feet high,about.four feet in -diameter, standing upright with the bottom of the tank about three feet above the floor. The decedent usually Aided this tank, when about to render lard, with fats put in at-*644the top, closed up the tank, and the contents were cooked by steam, then drawn out through a pipe and the cracklings were then…