Quimby v. Bee Building Co.
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court for Douglas county: Abraham L*. Sutton, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtFawcett, J.
Plaintiff, a boy twelve years of age, who, during the summer vaca lion of school, was acting as a messenger boy for the Postal Telegraph Company, was injured in *194one of the passenger elevators of defendant. From a judgment in his favor for such injury, defendant appeals.
The evidence shows that the floor of defendant’s building, at each landing, projects some two or more inches into the elevator shaft and inside of the wire network surrounding the shaft. The space between the floor of the elevator at the opening thereof and the floor of the building is just enough to permit the elevator to…
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