Dinkuhn v. Western New York Water Co.

On April 10, 1935, plaintiff sustained injuries in a fall from a concrete platform erected between the first or ground level floor and the basement floor in defendant’s pump house. On the morning of the accident plaintiff, an employee of the Buffalo Tank Corporation, went with a helper to defendant’s premises for the purpose of installing two flights of iron stairs that had been fabricated by his employer and delivered to defendant’s pump house on the preceding afternoon. Plaintiff had not been in the pump house before the morning of the accident. About a week before the accident, plaintiff’s…