Campbell v. Bradbury

Plaintiff recovered a judgment against Simona Bradbury, an incompetent, and Lewis Bradbury individually, for thirty-five thousand dollars for damages for personal injuries due to the fall of an elevator in the Tajo Building, in Los Angeles, owned by Simona Bradbury. Defendants appeal. The evidence is undisputed that the cables supporting the passenger elevator broke while it carried twenty persons, most of them law students attending a law college on the fourth floor of said building; that it dropped about four floors to the basement; that the plaintiff, a teacher in the law school, was a…