Brown v. Bryant

The defendants, who were building contractors, erected in the year 1909, at the corner of Gratiot avenue and Brush street, in the city of Detroit, a building of steel and concrete construction, eight stories high. On the 29th day of September, 1909, work was being done upon the building upon the seventh and eighth floors. At the rear of the building is an alley, and in the alley and in Brush street adjacent to the mouth of the alley, building material was placed. The hoisting of material to the various floors of the building was done by machinery, there being a steam engine stationed in the *182al…