Bruce v. Beall
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Shelby County. L. H. Estes, J.
1Opinion of the CourtBeard, J.
The defendant in error was an employe of the plaintiffs in error, and while engaged in the performance of a duty to his employers was frightfully injured, by the fall of a freight and passenger elevator in the storehouse of plaintiffs in error. At the time of the accident, the defendant in error was on the elevator, and the fall was occasioned by the sudden breaking of the two wire cables by which it was suspended. To recover dam-' ages for the injury thus sustained, this action was brought.
In his declaration, the plaintiff alleged that the elevator was "so carelessly and negligently…
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- Church v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1872
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