Davis v. Starrett Bros.

Lyle C. Davis brought his action for damages against Starrett Brothers Incorporated, alleging that while working in an elevator shaft on the first floor of a certain building in Atlanta as the employee of the Tyler Company, a carpenter who was in the employ of Starrett Brothers Incorporated and was working in the shaft five floors above him negligently dropped a hammer down the shaft and it fell upon him .and seriously injured him. The defendant was alleged to be negligent because it did not place something underneath its carpenters to prevent anything from falling down the shaft and injuring…