East St. Louis Junction Railroad v. Armour & Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Barry

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellant has a packing plant at East St. Louis. It has a switch track upon its premises and there is a tank house near by. Overhead pipes lead from the tank house to a point about 20 feet above the center of the said track. Those pipes are used for conveying melted tallow and grease from the tank house to tank cars upon the said track. When a car is to be loaded it is so placed that the dome thereof is below the end of the pipe.- About three or four weeks prior to July 19, 1924, appellant’s assistant foreman at the tank house…