Beidler v. Branshaw
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. This is an action on the case, brought by the appellee in the superior court of Cook county to recover damages for an injury to her husband, which resulted in his death.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. This is an action on the case, brought by the appellee in the superior court of Cook county to recover damages for an injury to her husband, which resulted in his death. The suit was brought against Jacob Beidler, the owner of the building in which was situated the elevator upon which appellee’s husband was a passenger at the time of the injury. Beidler having died prior to the trial, appellants, as administrators, were…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
The law is well settled in this State that persons operating elevators in buildings for the purpose of carrying persons from one story to another are common carriers of persons, and are required to exercise the highest degree of care and diligence in and about the operation of such elevators to prevent injury to passengers being carried thereon, and that the rules governing the liability of persons owning and operating passenger elevators in buildings apply to persons operating freight elevators when a person is rightfully upon such elevator as a passenger, and that while, from the necessary…
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