Schaller v. Independent Brewing Ass'n

Appellant’s intestate was, in December, 1897, engaged in varnishing the inside of beer storage tanks for appellee. These tanks were cylindrical in form, twenty-three feet high and seventeen feet in diameter. In the top of each of them was a hole three and one-half inches in diameter, and in the side, near the bottom, a hole through which a man could pass to the inside of the tank. Appellant’s intestate was employed by one Winkofsky, who had the contract to varnish the tanks. To enable the workmen to spread the varnish it was necessary to have a light in the interior of the tanks. An electric…