Rogers v. Kansas Coöperative Refining Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The plaintiff, while working in the capacity of stillman at the defendant’s oil refinery, was burned by hot tar. He recovered judgment for damages from which defendant appeals.

What is called the tar line consists of a three-incn iron pipe one hundred and fifty feet long, which runs from the still to the pump house. In the process of refining the oil a residue of heated tar and oil accumulates in the line which it is necessary to remove before it cools and becomes coked. At the front of the still there was a three-inch iron plug on the end of…