Harris v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal from an award and judgment under the workmen’s compensation act in favor of Robert Harris, an employee of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company at Osawatomie, at which place that company has a shop and roundhouse where its engines engaged in interstate commerce are serviced and overhauled.

Harris’s duties were to clean the shop grounds, haul materials, “knock and clean fires” and firepans, wash engines, clean out trash from inside the roundhouse, clean the yards, “shovel and clean up dirt, old paper, waste,” — or “just…