Meyer v. Grand Rapids Chair Co.

The plaintiff was the night watchman and night fireman in the furniture factory of the defendant in the city of Grand Rapids. On the fourth floor of this factory, there were three rooms, known as the “varnishing room,” the “filling room,” and the “staining room.” The floor of the varnishing room was about 18 inches above that of the filling room, and a slideway of hard maple, four or five feet wide and seven feet long, ran from the level of the varnishing room to the filling room, and was used in sliding furniture from one room to the other, and *605the employees passed over it in going between…