Sleck v. Butler Bros.

Plaintiff John Sleek, an employee of Pennoyer Merchants Transfer Company, was injured on March 21, 1956 while in the process of delivering air-conditioning equipment to the eighteenth floor of the Canal-Randolph Building. At the time of the occurrence Sleek was standing on a wire grating which formed the top of the elevator that was being used to hoist the equipment. As the elevator reached the first floor the roof of the elevator gave way, causing Sleek to fall to the elevator floor. Prior to the occurrence a coemployee of Sleek had removed some of the bolts which connected the wire grating…