Riland v. Hirshler
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 119, Oct. T., 1897, by-defendants, from judgment of C. P. Schuylkill Co., March T., 1894, No. 302, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Lyons, P. J., of the 41st judicial district, specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 119, Oct. T., 1897, by-defendants, from judgment of C. P. Schuylkill Co., March T., 1894, No. 302, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Lyons, P. J., of the 41st judicial district, specially presiding. It appears from the evidence that the plaintiff brought suit against defendants to recover damages which he alleged he sustained by reason of the negligence of defendants’ elevator boy in the operation 'of the elevator, contained in the defendants’ store. Plaintiff, unaccustomed to elevators, had entered the store as a customer and in the prosecution of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The systezn of transferring persons fz'om one level to another by elevators is not in such general use as to reasonably expect all persons to be familiar with their operation, and it is not possible to define the degree of care to be exercised by; one about to occupy an elevator as a passenger’.
It is held that the relation between the owner of an elevator for use of passengers and those carried in it is similar to that between an ordinary common carrier of passengers and those carried by him. The same reason exists for inquiring on the part of its owner the utmost human…
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