Mississippi River Fuel Corp. v. Young

The appellant, Mississippi River Fuel Corporation, owns a pipe line through which it transmits natural gas from the Monroe field in Louisiana, through the State of Arkansas, to St. Louis, Missouri. The line was constructed in 1929.

The appellee, E. E. Young, was a fireman on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and was going north near Judsonia, Arkansas. The pipes to be used in the construction of the lines were shipped from some point in Pennsylvania to the appellant, at Judsonia, and were being unloaded when one of the heavy pipes fell across the railroad track. Appellee, seeing the pipe, thought…