Lyon v. Davis

This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiff-appellee in an action for wrongful death. Appellee is the administratrix of the estate of her deceased son, Frederick Davis, who at the time of his death was 17 years of age. The injury resulting in his death occurred December 29, 1933. Appellants were sued as the owners of a three-story and basement store building located in E street, Washington city. There is a freight elevator .in the building, and the deceased came to his death as the result of walking in the dark into the elevator shaft and falling from the first floor to the basement.…