Seidel v. Nicollet Avenue Properties Corp.

Holt, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from the order denying a new trial after a directed verdict in defendant’s favor.

Plaintiff sued to recover damages for personal injuries received when at work repairing the elevator doors in defendant’s building, located on Nicollet avenue in the city of Minneapolis. The answer set up as a defense that plaintiff and his employer, the Flour City Ornamental Iron Company, and the defendant and its employes operating its elevators were all under 1 Mason Minn. St. 1927, c. 23A, part II, known as the workmen’s compensation act, and that plaintiff had elected to avail…