Fell v. Kimble

This suit was instituted by ap-pellee against appellant, a contractor, to recover damages for personal injuries, alleging that he was employed by appellant, who was engaged in remodeling a three-story brick building in Waco, and that at the direction of appellant’s foreman appellee, with two others, got into the elevator to descend from the top of the building, and was injured by the falling of said elevator some 50 feet to the ground below, owing to its defective condition, and on account of its being improperly and negligently operated. After a general demurrer and general denial, appellant…