Parker v. Omaha Packing Co.

The plaintiff, while working as a laborer for the defendant under the direction of a foreman, was engaged, with other workmen, in the- work of removing a brine pump from its foundation in a building, known as “The Old Omaha Packing Company Plant,” for the purpose of transferring it to another building. While thus engaged, he was directed by the foreman to remove, a block from under one side of the pump; one end of the pump having-been raised to a height of about eighteen inches by two jacks, one on each side. The pump was about nine or ten feet long, four feet wide and four feet high, and…