Campbell v. Leach

The plaintiff seeks to recover for the conscious suffering and death of her testator and late husband, Tristram J. Campbell. The defendants hired Campbell to do time studies on a machine on the second floor in their leather plant. Prior to December 7, 1961, Campbell had studied the machine for two days. On these visits, he did not use the freight elevator, but used the stairway which gave access to all four floors of the plant.

One defendant arranged to have Campbell make a time study of the machine during the 11 p.m. shift on December 6, 1961. One Barker, a fireman-watchman, on the in…