Egner v. Curtis, Towle & Paine Co.

From a judgment of the district court for Lancaster county, on a verdict for $3,000 in favor of plaintiff in an action for personal injuries, defendant appeals.

Defendant is a corporation, and, among other things, is engaged in running a planing mill. In connection with its business it owns a four-story building and has in use therein a freight elevator. The petition alleges: That the defendant, through its foreman, ordered plaintiff, who was *20one of its employees, to leave his work in another part of the building and help the foreman break a hole in the pit of the elevator shaft, for the…