Commonwealth Power Railway & Light Co. v. Vaught

Opinion op the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

In January, 1919, the appellee was employed by the Southern Express Co., at Danville, Ky., as a deliveryman, and in that capacity it was his duty to deliver and to receive from shippers packages handled by the express company.

On one day in that month it became his duty to go to and_ receive from a second-story apartment on Main street in Danville for shipment a large box weighing three or four hundred pounds. The entrance to the stairway leading to this apartment was in an offset or small court between two buildings, and the pavement there…