Overstreet v. Security Storage & Safe Deposit Co.

Mansbach Brothers, merchants in the city of Norfolk, had leased a building in Norfolk in which to do business, and, preparatory to moving in, had employed plumbers, painters, electricians and other workmen to put the building in order. They also employed the defendant in error, hereinafter called the security company, to remove their stock of goods from another building in the city to the new location. There was in the new *309building a freight elevator, which Mansbach Brothers put at the disposal of any and all the workmen in the building in connection with their work. This elevator extended…