Anderson Art Co. v. Greenburg

The alleged negligence causing, it is said, the injury for which appellee has recovered, is found in the supposed misconduct of the elevator boy, who is charged with “carelessly, negligently, wrongfully and improperly and suddenly and violently” starting the elevator down “with great suddenness and without any warning to the plaintiff,” while the latter at the operator’s request was closing the door to the elevator on the first floor, through which door the plaintiff had just entered the lower or freight compartment of the car. The evidence of appellee tends to sustain this contention. In…