Tralle v. Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co.

This is an action to recover damages for alleged negligence resulting in the death of John P. Tralle, a workman. While he was operating a freight elevator in a store building at 415 South Sixteenth street, Omaha, August 19, 1924, a hammer fell into the elevator shaft, struck him on the *420head and killed him. His widow, Margaret Tralle, as administratrix of his estate, brought this action against the following defendants: John R. Webster and John Potter Webster, owners of the store building; Hartman Furniture & Carpet Company, lessee of the owners, proprietor of the store, a corporation in…