Dill Mfg. Co. v. Zanciuk

Emil Zanciuk brought this action originally in the Cuyahoga Common Pleas for damages for. personal injury where he received judgment for $4000, which was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

The Properties Co. was the owner of certain premises part of which were leased to The Dill Manufacturing Co. Zanciuk was a. Co. and part of his duties consisted in ringing a clock in the part leased by the Manufacturing Co. This service was paid for by the Mfg. Co. to The Properties Co., but- Zanciuk was employed by the Properties Co.

Zanciuk was injured by the falling of cartons piled up- by the Mfg. Co. which had been propped up by a stick two or three weeks previous to the accident.

The second amended petition makes a case solely of ordinary negligence was not pleaded or supported by the evidence. Neither was there any evidence to bring the case within the principle that plaintiff’s injuries were sustained by reason of any act of negligence on the part of the defendant after discovery of the peril.

The Mfg. Co. in the Supreme Court contends.

1. That the verdict and judgment are contrary to law because under the pleadings and facts no case of actionable negligence is established and because on conceded facts that Zanciuk as a licensee assumed the risks of the static condition, existing on leased premises and was guilty' of contributory negligence precluding recovery.

2. Erros in the admission of evidence.

3. Errors in the charge of the Court.

4. Errors of law on the trial in that the court erred in allowing the case to go to the jury, on the theory that Zanciuk was an invitee on the premises.