Gorbulove v. Buttnick

The plaintiff was a subtenant of quarters on the fourth floor of the sixty-five-year-old Maynard building in- Seattle. He brought this action against the owners and .the tenant of the building for injuries received when he fell down the elevator shaft. He had been notified, sometime prior to the accident, that the elevator service would be discontinued. He made arrangements by which he and his two associates could, nevertheless, use the elevator themselves. This was gratuitous and for their own convenience. Accordingly, he purchased a chain and padlock and kept the door to the elevator shaft,…