Butler v. Reed-Avery Co.

Louis H. Butler, appellant, started to walk from his home, shortly after midnight on the morning of March 3, 1944, to the Federal Yeast Company, for the purpose of applying for work. On his way he traveled over Ralls Avenue (which is also known as Rails Avenue and Railroad Avenue) and while walking along that avenue he fell into a “dangerous chemical,” which flowed from appel lee’s plant “as a waste product into said Ralls Avenue” and accumulated “in said Avenue at a point 100 to 200 feet northwest from the intersection of said Ralls Avenue and Cleveland Street,” which badly burned him, and…