Spokane Truck & Dray Co. v. Hoefer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

— The plaintiff, Mina Hoefer, had her arm broken and was otherwise injured by the falling of a safe, which was being hoisted by the defendant into a five-story brick building, known as the “ Eagle Block,” in the city of Spokane Falls. Plaintiff had been to the office of her physician in the second story of said building, where she was accustomed to go for treatment daily, and while returning from such a visit on the 7th day of February, 1890, *47she passed down the stairway and into the court or opening under the hoisted safe just as it fell.…