Murphy v. Coppieters

GRAY, C.

This action was brought by plaintiff for the negligent killing of her son by defendants while said son was at work as a plumber in the Call Building on the thirtieth day of September, 1897. The son was at work in a certain shaft at the rear of the elevator shaft on the second floor. In the same shaft, above, at about the seventeenth floor, an employee of appellants named Johnson was engaged in fastening an iron ladder in place by means of iron anchors, and the evidence indicates that it was by Johnson dropping one of these anchors down the open shaft that the son came to his death.…