OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY v. ROBINSON

No. 18392.

287 F.2d 62 (1961)

OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Appellant, v. Marshall L. ROBINSON and Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, Intervener, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. B. Handley, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

Ken R. Davey, L. P. Bickel, Dallas, Tex., Baker, Jordan, Davey & Shaw and Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, Dallas, Tex., for appellee and intervenor.

Before RIVES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The sole question here is whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain the jury verdict holding that Otis Elevator Company negligently failed to repair an elevator on which Robinson was injured.

Otis was not the owner of the elevator, nor was it the operator of it. Rather, the elevator was one of many actively in use in the new and modern Statler Hilton Hotel of Dallas. Otis had a maintenance contract with the Statler Hilton...

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