Glenn v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.

*454Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson — =■

'Affirming.

Edward Glenn was in the employ of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company in its shop at Lndlow, Kentucky, as a boiler maker helper, and came to his death in this way: There were in the shops a number of tracks on which locomotives were placed to be overhauled; on some of these tracks there was what was called the drop pit, which was about 9 feet deep and about 16 feet long, this pit being used when the large driving wheels were to be taken off a locomotive. The pit was used so as to avoid the necessity of jacking…