Sloan v. Hirsch

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

Defendant is the owner of the Hirsch Building on Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, in which the elevator system consists of two cars moving side by side, with counterweights for each located in the back of the shaft. Dr. Gehrs, a tenant on the third floor, requiring the use of electricity, secured consent of defendant’s superintendent to place a conduit in the back part of the elevator shaft with wires therein by which the electric current could be transmitted from a generator in the basement. The superintendent suggested Sunday morning, April 8,1923, as a convenient…