Mississippi River Fuel Corporation v. Hamilton

On September 26, 1937, appellee was in the temporary employment of appellant as a casual laborer. The appellant operates a pipe-line for the transportation of natural gas through the State of Arkansas and through White county, with a pumping plant at West Point in said county. It became necessary to do some extra work around its pumping1 plant at West Point and appellant hired for. temporary employment appellee and a number of others living in that vicinity.

Some of these employees had made an excavation around a pressure or header tank which is about 16 inches in diameter and 14 feet long.…