Whitehouse v. Cities Service Oil Co.

The plaintiff was employed by the Albert Culver Co., hereinafter called Culver, as an operator of a large ten-wheeled tank truck. He drove the truck upon the premises of the corporate defendant, hereinafter called the oil company, for the purpose of obtaining fuel oil and kerosene. After getting a written order at the office of the oil company, he drove the truck into one of the stalls located under elevated tanks and loaded on the quantity of *109fuel oil mentioned in the written order. Another truck was waiting to load at this stall. A platform or catwalk, twenty inches wide and about four feet…