Davis v. Nox-All Shoe Co.

Edith B. Davis, the plaintiff’s intestate, lost her life in a fire which destroyed the defendant’s shoe factory in Alton upon January 13, 1930. She was at that time employed as a bookkeeper in the defendant’s office. The specific ground of negligence upon which the plaintiff relies is the failure of the defendant to have the doors of its factory open outward instead of inward. It is the contention of the plaintiff that the method of construction adopted by the defendant constituted a violation of the statute which reads as follows: “Every building in which laborers are employed shall be…