Preston v. Sleziak

Plaintiffs were spending a weekend as invited guests at defendants’ hilltop cottage. Access to the cottage was by either a 113-step stairway or an elevator. The elevator consisted of a car that was raised or lowered along railed tracks by means of cables and an electric winch. Injuries to plaintiffs occurred when the car, on which they were descending crashed to the bottom of the hill. The elevator was of the homemade variety and the defendant-husband repeatedly as'sured plaintiffs that it was safe. Plaintiffs claim' their injuries were caused by defendants’ negligence ' in constructing,…