Forbes v. Framingham Union Hospital, Inc.

The reported evidence may be summarized as follows:

At approximately 12:30 p.m. on December 26, 1979, an employee of F.S. Payne arrived at Framingham Union Hospital in response to a call from his dispatcher that an elevator at the hospital was out of service. He went to the elevator in question (“elevator number one”), determined that the problem was with a locking mechanism on the first floor, adjusted the lock and put the elevator back into operation.

After the Payne employee had repaired the elevator, he decided to perform his regularly-scheduled weekly maintenance of the remaining elevators…