Brandon v. Gottlieb

The appeal in this case is from a judgment maintaining an exception of no cause of action.

The allegations of plaintiffs’ petition, pertinent to the determination of the law question at issue, show in the main, the following facts which must, for the purpose of passing upon the exception, be accepted as true.

The petition charges that the minor son of plaintiffs, aged ' about fourteen years while in the pursuit of his lawful duties, was killed by an elevator through the gross negligence and want of care of an employee and servant of said Gottlieb, whose duty it was to operate said elevator in…