Gastine v. Ewing

—This is an appeal from a judgment against defendants for damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff wife when she fell into a stage elevator shaft upon the premises of a cafe and night club owned and operated by defendants. Her presence there resulted from an invitation to appear and demonstrate an act looking toward pros- p active employment by defendants. Trial was had before the court sitting without a jury.

In the center of the building here involved there was a circular elevator stage about 14 feet in diameter which was raised and lowered by electrical machinery. It had a height…