Leiter v. Kinnare

The appellant, in February, 1892, had nearly finished his immense merchantile warehouse on State, Van Burén and Congress streets.

The carpenter work was being done by men directly employed by him.

One Chandler was foreman of a gang of carpenters, fourteen in number, among whom were two brothers named Elms. The building had so many elevators in it that two of them were numbers eleven and twelve, and the shaft of twelve had, at the story of the building to which this suit relates, a window opening into an alley, the window being at what would be called the back of the shaft, as the door of the…