Inmore v. Schofield Co.

Citations

• 33 Ohio C.C. Dec. 101
• 18 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 370
• 1911 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 264

Syllabus

<p>ELEVATORS — MASTER AND SERVANT</p> <p>Sudden Starting of Elevator Due to Negligence of Fellow-Servant, or Intruder Imposes No Liability on Owner.</p> <p>There can be no recovery by a fireman in a business building who was injured when he stepped off an elevator in the building by its sudden starting, he having operated the elevator himself, with knowledge that other employes were permitted to do the same thing, no defect in the construction or operation being shown and the only reasonable explanation of the accident being that some other employe, or fellow-servant, or some intruder upon the premises, started the elevator without warning.</p>