Wolcott v. Studebaker
United States Circuit Court
At Law. Suit for damages for injury to plaintiff while in the defendants’ em-ploymentf resulting from an elevator accident. The plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that he was employed by the defendants, who were manufacturers and dealers in wagons, carriages, etc., in the city of Chicago, to crate or box carriages. His place of work was on the fourth floor of defendants’ building.
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At Law. Suit for damages for injury to plaintiff while in the defendants’ em-ploymentf resulting from an elevator accident. The plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that he was employed by the defendants, who were manufacturers and dealers in wagons, carriages, etc., in the city of Chicago, to crate or box carriages. His place of work was on the fourth floor of defendants’ building. It was his habit, and that of the other employes, to begin work at 7 o’clock in the morning, and to be carried to the fourth floor by the elevator in question. The elevator was used to carry both freight and…
1Opinion of the Court
Dyer, J.,
(orally.) Without discussing the question of contributory negligence, which 1 am inclined to think would be one for the jury, if the case were to be submitted to them. I proceed to consider the other grounds of alleged liability in the case. It is said by counsel for the plaintiff that the ordinance of the city which made it the duty of the defendants to employ some competent person to take charge of and operate the elevator in question, fixes upon the defendants, under the facts disclosed, a liability to the plaintiff for the injury which he sustained. The ordinance, it seems to me,…
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- Peschel v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1885
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