Ford v. Adams Dry Goods Co.

The plaintiff was employed as electrician in the defendant’s department store. He had to go all about the store and building and care for the arc. lights and electric wires and fixtures. He had no other duties. From the engine room in the basement a platform lift ran up to the street level where flap doors opened. This lift was used to carry the ashes up from the engine room and to carry down the litter from the store floors to be burned in the engine fires. It was also used to bring down material used in the engine room. It was not the duty of the plaintiff to do any of these things, but in…