F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Ellison

COLLINGS, Justice.

This is a suit for damages brought by ap-pellee, W. H. Ellison, against appellant, F. W. Woolworth Company, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by ap-pellee while removing trash from the basement of appellant’s store. Appellee was an employee of H. T. Harris who had the contract to remove appellant’s trash. As such employee, he entered the basement of appellant’s store through a sidewalk entrance on the occasion in question and his injuries occurred when one of the heavy steel doors to such entrance was blown to, or otherwise closed, and struck appellee’s…