O'BRIEN v. Bethlehem Steel Corporation

*116The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Sohbttdsto, J.

This is a negligence action. Plaintiff-husband, Emmet J. O’Brien, fell into an elevator shaft located in a building owned by defendant Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He claimed injuries and brought this suit, charging that defendant’s negligent installation, construction and maintenance of the elevator had caused his fall. His wife, Estelle O’Brien, joined to recover her consequential losses. Defendant denied negligence and asserted plaintiff-husband’s contributory negligence as a bar to recovery. At the close of plaintiffs’ case, defendant…