Brooks v. Essex Warehouse Co.

The judgment under review should be affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Bodine in the Supreme Court, supplemented b}r further recital of proofs as follows:

The employer concedes that the workman could have fallen into the elevator shaft through the basement opening but upon the theory that the day’s work was done and that there was no reason for the workman to descend from the main floor to the basement floor argues that injury or death so suffered would not be compensable. We think the assumption that the decedent had ended his day’s work and that there…