Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. v. Langley

This action arises on account of a personal injury received by appellee while in the employ of appellant as a “connection” man, or pipe fitter, in the oil fields of Nevada County. A two and one-half inch pipe line had been laid on the ground from a near-hy oil well to a large storage tank, 15 feet in diameter and 25 feet high, and a riser pipe of the same size was connected therewith and erected on the outside of said tank, 18 inches above the top thereof. On top of this riser a tee joint was screwed, with a plug closing the hole in the top of the tee, and a discharge pipe 8 or 10 feet long…