William Miller & Sons Co. v. Wayman

E. E. Wayman, on or about July 10, 1911, was in the employment of William Miller Sons Company, a corporation, which was constructing a nine or ten story building in the city of Houston known as the "Southern Pacific Building." While so engaged at work upon said building, Wayman was, on the date mentioned, killed by being struck by a large bucket used for hoisting concrete and other building material through a shaft or open space in the building called an "elevator shaft," and which bucket was descending through the shaft from the roof to the bottom of the shaft. This suit was instituted by…