Necker v. Harvey

The injury for which this suit is brought was occasioned by the fall of an elevator upon which the plaintiff at the time was standing. The elevator was manufactured by the defendant for the Detroit Soap Company, under a contract that it should lift two thousand pounds easily, by steam or hand power. It was put up in the factory of the *519.soap company on May 27th, 1881, and the fall occurred through the breaking of the main shaft three days thereafter. Plaintiff was a workman in the employ of the soap company, ..and was engaged in loading the elevator with a load of less than two thousand pounds…