Savannah Theatres Co. v. Brown

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Where injury is alleged to have been proximately caused by specified negligence on the part of a defendant, the question whether it was in fact thus brought about is one that it is peculiarly within the province of the jury to determine. In the instant ease the fall and injury of the plaintiff’s wife while going down the stairway of the defendant’s theater building is specifically alleged by the plaintiff to have been “caused by the pushing and shoving in her rear” of certain small boys. Thus, while the petition may indicate that the alleged hole in the…