Galbraith-Foxworth Lumber Co. v. Gerneth

The Galbraith-Foxworth Lumber Company has prosecuted this appeal from a judgment against it in the sum of $1,-500 in favor of Otto Gerneth and his wife, Mabel Gerneth, as damages sustained by them in the loss of services of their minor child, D. C. Gerneth, resulting from injuries sustained by the child when he was caught in an ascending freight elevator owned by the defendant company.

The defendant owned a lumber yard situated between Broadway and Elm streets in the city of Gainesville, fronting north on Broadway, and extending south through the block to Elm street. The lumber yard was…