State Ex Rel. Schiller v. Hecht Co.

This is a suit, under article 67 of the Code as amended, by the father for damages for the death of an infant child resulting from the alleged' negligence of the defendant in failing to provide proper safeguards to an elevator shaft into which the child fell, it being killed.

The little boy, aged fourteen, was a member of an “avia tion class,” conducted by the Hecht Company, trading as “The Hub”, on the fourth floor of a building known as Warehouse No. 2, situated in the rear of the building known as No. 22 East Baltimore Street in the City of Baltimore. The company also occupied part of…