Little Rock Land Company v. Raper

How courts have described this case

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• owner of elevator “has the same duty to protect passengers using his elevators from injury as do common carriers of passengers, i.e., to exercise the highest degree of skill”
• defendant owner-operator of an elevator that injured the plaintiff’s hand when the elevator’s safety mechanism failed to prevent the injury could still be found negligent despite the elevator being compliant with all industry safety standards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).