Arkansas Fuel Oil Company v. Downs

Appellee sued appellant to compensate for personal injuries resulting from a fall into a hole left by appellant on the right-of-way of state highway No. 53 in Bodcaw, Arkansas. He alleged in his. complaint that appellant, in removing one of its gasoline fuel tanks from its position on the public highway, "left a big hole where the underground tank had been . . . and the hole was left in such a way that the sides or walls sloughed off”; that it was "several feet deep and several feet wide” and was unguarded, and that as a result of appellant’s negligent acts appellee, while walking along a…