Logan v. McMillen

The factual matters as alleged in the pleadings are that the defendant Bolton & Hay, a copartnership, and the individual defendants composing it owned a business building in Des Moines in which there was an elevator shaft, with elevator and the necessary operating equipment for the use of the tenants, but not included in their leases, and over which said defendants retained control. The plaintiff, Balph Logan, an employee of Niles & Jones, the lessee of the first floor and most of the basement of the building, while engaged in his work approached the open door of the elevator shaft on the…