McQuitty v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s husband, at the time he received the injuries causing his death, was both engineer and fireman of a stationary engine used in loading gravel on cars for use on defendant’s road. Deceased was in the employ of the gravel company. Th ¡ gravel plant, located near Noel, Missouri, was reached by a switch about 1000 feet long connected with defendant’s main line and extending to and along the bank of Elk River where was located the machinery for loading the gravel into the cars. The hoister, near the river bank, was placed on a concrete foundation seven or eight feet high and the…