Sack v. Ralston

Citations

• 220 Pa. 216
• 69 A. 671
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 754

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Elevators—Latent defect — Notice.</p> <p>An owner of a building cannot be held liable for personal injuries sustained by the fall of an elevator, where it appears that the accident was due to a latent defect in a bolt, that the bolt had been made by a machine blacksmith of thirty years’ experience, that it had been placed in the elevator a month before the accident in the course of repairs by a man with fourteen years’ experience in the elevator business, and that after the repairs had been made the elevator was inspected and passed by a casualty company, and by the department of public safety of the city in which the building was situated.</p>