Johnston v. Johnson

— Plaintiff and defendant were both employed by the Johnson Clay Works, located southeast of Fort Dodge, Iowa. On the afternoon of November 23, 1934, plaintiff and defendant were engaged in loading bricks from an L-shaped brick pile in the brickyard. A description of the brick pile is aided by the following sketch:

This pile of brick extended in an east and west direction, was 30 feet long at the north, 5 or 6 feet wide at the west, and extended easterly at the same width for about 15 feet; from whence it extended southerly about 4 feet, from thence easterly 15 feet, and from thence northerly…