Corrievau v. Associated Realty Corporation

On February 1st, 1935, at about 7:45 a.m., the plaintiff, a truckman, drove his truck into a driveway upon the premises of the defendant for the purpose of delivering merchandise to a tenant of the defendant upon the third floor of its building. Plaintiff walked from his truck to a freight elevator used in common by the tenants of the building, and fell into the elevator pit. In front of the elevator shaft is an automatic safety gate of wooden pickets about five feet high, which is suspended over a pulley by a rope attached to a counterweight so that the gate comes down automatically by its…