Rice v. City of Portland

The undisputed evidence in this case showed that the City of Portland, in the operation and maintenance of its water system, operated two lands of trucks— one kind for emergency purposes, the other for other purposes; that these emergency trucks were small trucks and were designed and intended to carry four persons only, and such supplies, tools and equipment as were required for repairing defective mains and for other like emergency work. To each of them there were assigned four men, the foreman of a particular district, a driver, a mechanic, and a common laborer, and so far as the evidence…