Eureka Oil Company v. Mooney

Cleo Mooney, appellee’s intestate, was employed as a pumper at one of the oil wells of the appellant company, in Union County. A dam had been constructed by appellant across a ravine, and, as the oil flowed from the well, it ran down this ravine to a dam -and formed a pool. The pool was about thirty feet across at the lower end, and was about two feet deep.

A plank about seven or eight feet long was used as a walkway from the dam out into the pool to an intake pipe of a suction pump. One end of the plank rested on the dam and the other rested on a cross-piece nailed to two stobs which, had…