Knowling v. Morris & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The action was one for compensation for the death of a workman. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff on the pleadings and a stipulation with reference to facts. The defendant appeals.

The stipulation was that the workman, an employee of the defendant, was injured in the course of his employment while icing refrigerator cars on the track of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, adjacent to the defendant’s packing plant. The workman was obliged to work on top of the cars. As he was about to step from one car to another, they were separated by…