Midland Terminal Railway Co. v. Patton

Sarah Patton, defendant in error, had a verdict and judgment for $5,000 against the Midland Terminal Railway Company for the death of her husband by its alleged negligence, and it brings the cause here for review.

The deceased met his death at the defendant’s airbrake shop at about 11:45 a. m., September 7, 1920, by falling off a plank laid across the end of a vat eight feet long, three and one-half feet wide and about two feet deep, nearly filled with a boiling mixture of lye/ caustic soda and water, which was used as a bath for machinery, to remove grease therefrom. It was usually kept'…