Criterion Theatre Corporation v. Starns

On the 16th day of December, 1942, Ida Starns, hereinafter called plaintiff, filed her action against the Criterion Theatre, a corporation, defendant, alleging that while a paid patron of the theatre she fell down the balcony steps and sustained injuries. Judgment was for the plaintiff for $1,000, and defendant appeals.

The facts are, substantially, that plaintiff, together with a woman companion, went to the theatre some time after noon on July 19, 1942, and took a seat in the fifth row of the balcony of the theatre. When she went into the theatre it was dark. The balcony steps leading to the…