S. Kann, Sons & Co. v. Meyer

Citations

• 88 Md. 541
• 41 A. 1065
• 1898 Md. LEXIS 222

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Injury to Workmen on Elevator — Dangerous Premises — Legal Sufficiency of Evidence.</p> <p>Plaintiff was employed by defendant to repair a freight elevator in the cellar of his building. Alongside of the freight elevator was a passenger elevator, and when this ascended a piston rod became elongared and ran in close proximity to the freight elevator. Plaintiff was not notified of this danger and the cellar was dark so that he did not see the operation of the passenger elevator nor did he hear it. While he was at work on the freight elevator he was caught and crushed by the piston rod of the passenger elevator. Defendant knew that plaintiff was then at work there and did not cause the passenger elevator to stop running. Held, that there was sufficient evidence of defendant’s negligence to be submitted to the jury, and that the plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence in law.</p>