Ryon v. American Car & Foundry Co.

— Plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant in an action for damages resulting from injuries alleged to have been sustained whilst in the employ of the defendant. Defendant in due course brings this appeal.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges that whilst in the employ of defendant, on the 8th day of December, 1924, at about five-thirty in the evening, which was the usual quitting time, the lights of the wood shop of the defendant company in which he was then at work, were extinguished, leaving the place in complete darkness; that the defendant’s foreman in charge of its work and of the…