Mid-Continent Pipe Line Co. v. Price

F. D. Price, administrator of the estate of John Mitchell (Dick) Justus, deceased, recovered judgment against Mid-Continent Pipe Line Company for the wrongful death of Justus, and the defendant company has appealed.

The deceased had been employed by the defendant as a pipe-line laborer. As such and at the direction of the defendant he had worked at rolling pipe on a pipe rack in an area enveloped with smoke or fumes emanating from an adjacent operation where hot coal tar enamel was being applied to pipe. Death came from an involvement of the lungs.

The plaintiff alleged that while carrying on…