McGregor v. Reid, Murdoch & Co.

The appellee, a corporation, carried on the business of a wholesale grocer in a four-story building, and operated two freight elevators to carry its goods from one floor to another. Appellant was a porter employed by appellee to receive goods into the basement and take them up to the several floors on one of these elevators, but not to operate the elevator, that duty being performed by another employee. On November 15, 1894, appellant, in performance of his duties, placed a truck containing half a dozen cases of catsup on the elevator, got on himself, and with this freight was taken up to the…