Boles v. Hotel Maytag Co.

The decedent, Charles W. Boles, who was engaged as an independent contractor in furnishing certain electrical supplies and service for the Maytag Hotel of Newton, Iowa, met his death by falling into the pit of an elevator shaft in the Maytag Hotel, on the evening of January 9, 1932. On that date he was furnishing certain electrical equipment and service in one of the rooms on the fourth floor for the hotel. He had performed similar work on former occasions, hut had not been so engaged for about two months prior to January, 1932. He had been working on his present contract about two days. The…