Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Co. v. Weeks

In this case defendant in error sued to recover damages for personal injuries occasioned by the operation of a friction hoist used in raising and lowering beeves in a packing-house. The only allegation of negligence was that the person who operated the hoist at the time of the injury was unskilled and inexperienced, and by reason of such unskilfulness and inexperience the hoist was so manipulated as to drop a beef upon the defendant in error and injure him. For the purpose of attributing the conduct of the inexperienced man who caused the injury to the plaintiff, it was alleged that the…