Coddington v. Berry Dry Goods Company

This action was instituted in the Crawford circuit court by appellant against the appellees, seeking to recover damages for personal injury. Appellant was a plasterer, doing plaster work on different parts of the building, for which he was paid by the Berry Dry Goods Company. He had been plastering the elevator shaft and had finished all except the bottom; he pulled the elevator up to the fourth floor and entered the shaft for the purpose of finishing the work in the bottom of the pit, and while waiting for some trash to be removed, Prank Carlton, another employee of the appellee, swept or…