Stogsdill v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

Plaintiff was employed by the defendant railway company as a laborer at defendant's "coal chutes" at Newburg, Missouri. At these "chutes" the storage bins for coal are elevated some sixty feet, or more, above the level of the ground and the adjacent railroad tracks. Defendant's locomotive engines, engaged in both intrastate and interstate traffic, are supplied with coal at these "chutes." The coal in the storage bins is conveyed, "by gravity," from the bins to the engines through "a coal chute apron." The evidence does not disclose that it was any part of plaintiff's duties to assist in, or…