Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Pixler

Chapman, J. —

The record in this case discloses that Sears-Roebuck & Company operates a retail store in Jacksonville, Florida, with a Mr. Ellis as manager, Mr. F. R. Markert, supervisor, and C. C. Crowell, as supervisor of maintenance, and the claimant, Frank R. Pixler, on November 9, 1937, was a building mechanic. It became necessary to replace some plaster on the second floor of the building occupied by Sears, Roebuck & Company, likewise some plaster about a fountain on the third floor, as well as other places in the building where the plaster was in a low state of repair and about to fall.…