Royal v. White Oil Corp.

This is an action by William L. Boyal against the White Oil Corporation to recover damages for personal injuries received in consequence of the slipping of a plank on which the plaintiff was standing while engaged in looking in a water tank to see if it was full of water.. ■ William L. Royal was employed by the White Oil Corporation to1 keep certain tanks full of water, and was hurt while in the discharge of his duties. He was employed by the defendant’s superintendent on the first day of June, 1922, as- a pumper, and was directed to take -charge of one shift of the pumping which lasted from…