Henry v. City of Lincoln

This is an action by an employee in the water department of the city of Lincoln to recover from his employer damages in the sum of $10,000 for personal injuries sustained September 3, 1908. At that time plaintiff had been in the employ of defendant for a month as a motor-tender at the Eice pumping station near the intersection of Twenty-fourth and N streets. He worked alone at the bottom of a cylindrical pit 50 feet deep and 25 feet in diameter,, where two pumps, propelled by electricity were located. Intending- to prime one of the pumps, which had lost its suction, plaintiff stepped onto a…