Murphy v. Alpine Press Inc.

The defendant as lessee under a written lease occupied the sixth or top floor of a building on Congress Street, Boston, known as the Oliver Ditson Building. The plaintiff, an employee of one Hill, who was engaged in the *240trucking business, came to the defendant’s premises for the purpose of getting some bundles of paper to be delivered for the defendant. The paper was to be lowered to the street level by means of a freight elevator. While the plaintiff at the sixth floor was reaching out over the elevator shaft to manipulate the cable by which the elevator could be brought up, the bar of the…