Fuchs v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, 'Parish of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge. Action by Lena Fuchs and others against the Kansas City Southern Railway Company. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals, and plaintiffs, answering, pray that the award, appealed from be increased.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
John Fuchs, a boiler maker’s apprentice, about 19 years old, in defendant’s employ, was instructed by his foreman to make some repairs upon an oil tank on wheels, or tank car,, said tank being about 40 feet long, by 6 or 7 feet in diameter, with a dome, through which there was a manhole on the top of it midway between the two ends. I-Ie entered the tank through the manhole, in the discharge of the duty to which he was thus assigned, and carried an “open lamp” or “torch” with him; the result being that there was an explosion, followed by intense heat, whereby he…
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