Lotocka v. Elevator Supplies Co.

This action was brought by the administratrix of Alex Lotocka to recover damages for his death. Lotocka, while at work on the ninth floor of a building, which was in process of erection, fell through an open and unguarded doorway of an elevator shaft, and, dropping to the bottom of the shaft, sustained such injuries that he died. The defendant Geo-Ted Realty Corporation- was erecting the building upon premises owned by it. It had parcelled out the work of construction to various contractors. It had assigned to the Gurney Elevator Company, named but apparently not prosecuted as a defendant, a…