Persons v. Bush Terminal Co.

Plaintiff’s intestate, James Burns, was a laborer in defendant’s employ. His death was caused by falling from an open exterior freight elevator located between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, South Brooklyn, which ran in the space between defendant’s storehouses 53 and 54. On the river side it was entirely open; on two other sides the elevator space was enclosed by the adjacent building walls, and opposite the river side, toward First avenue, it was closed by a grating. This elevator platform measures fourteen feet in its length parallel with the river, with a width of nine feet three…