Daszkiewicz v. Detroit Board of Education

Defendant, board of education of the city of Detroit, owns and conducts Wayne University, which includes a college of medicine. Plaintiff’s decedent son, 22-years-old, was a sophomore in the college of medicine. On December 15, 1937, he fell into an elevator shaft located in the medical school building, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death five days later.

Plaintiff began suit to recover damages resulting from the death of his decedent and alleged that defendant was negligent in failing to keep and maintain the automatic elevator in the medical school building and the elevator doors…