Francis v. Terminal Railroad Assn.

Respondent, Francis, obtained a judgment against appellant, Terminal Railroad Association, in the sum of $40,000 in a personal injury action. The railroad company appealed. In the course of this opinion the parties will be designated as plaintiff and defendant.

Plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant as a pipefitter's helper. On October 14, 1943, Gastorf, a pipefitter also in the employ of defendant, was assigned to the task of stopping a leak in an expansion joint of a pipe carrying steam to the trains at the Union Station in St. Louis. Plaintiff was Gastorf's helper on this assignment.…