Shew v. Hartnett

This is a personal injury action on behalf of Dorris Shew, by his guardian ad litem. On January 21, 1918, he, seventeen years of age, and as an employee of James J. Hartnett and wife, was operating a passenger elevator in an apartment house known as Haddon Hall apartments, in Seattle, when the hoisting cables of the elevator broke, causing the elevator to drop a distance of about thirty feet to the basement, causing the injuries complained of. A suit was commenced against the Hartnetts, lessees of the property, the Thomson Estate, Incorporated, owners of the property, and the J. J. Montgomery…