Masi v. General Ice Cream Corporation

The jury could reasonably have found from the evidence that on September 28th, 1932, the defendant, a manufacturer of ice cream, owned and occupied a building in Waterbury which contained two floors and a basement, the latter below and the first floor slightly above the street level; within the building an elevator shaft extended from the upper floor to the basement; at the first floor level a platform extended from the front of the building, and access to the elevator from this platform was furnished by a gate which opened into the shaft; this was an electrically operated, slow freight…