Alkire v. Cudahy Packing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BURCH, J.:

The defendant conducts a manufacturing establishment in which the plaintiff was employed. The plaintiff’s duties required him to go to an elevator *374shaft guarded only by a two-by-four-inch wooden bar placed three and one-half feet from the floor. The floor was an inclined one, was slippery with grease, and the plaintiff’s shoes were slippery with grease. The plaintiff acted with haste, slipped on the floor, fell so that his head protruded into the elevator shaft, and was injured by a descending elevator.' He recovered damages under the factory…