City of Wichita Falls v. Lewis

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

W. M. Lewis was employed as a janitor in the municipal auditorium maintained by the city of Wichita Falls. One of the duties of his employment was to distribute ice to the various offices in the building from an ice box in the basement where a supply of ice for that purpose was kept. The ice box was about 3½ feet square and 4 feet deep with a lid about 4 inches thick weighing about 200 pounds to which was attached a cord running over a pulley with a heavy weight at the other end. In order to take out the ice it was necessary to raise the lid which was easily done by…