May v. Van Drisse Motors, Inc.

The appellant owned and managed a garage in which there was a room for washing and repairing autos. There was located under the level of the floor a catch-basin covered by a circular perforated iron lid, one-half inch in thickness by about eighteen inches across. Into this basin not only water but oil, gasoline, alcohol, and dirt were allowed to accumulate in large quantities. The respondent seeks to sustain the judgment under the safe-place statute, sec. 101.06.

The? manager of appellant testified that he knew the mixture in the basin was dangerous because liable to explosion. He testified as…