Higbee v. La Salle

Defendant and respondent Arthur La Shelle (sued as La Salle) owns and operates the café-bar known as Christian’s Hut in the city of Newport Beach. After patronizing the upstairs bar at about midnight on March 14, 1954, plaintiff, his wife and a guest went downstairs to another bar on the first floor to have another “nightcap.” They then left by the front entrance where they came in. Plaintiff opened an opaque front door, about 3 feet wide, leading to five steps. He stepped forward and fell to the bottom of these steps on the cement sidewalk and suffered a severe fracture of his left leg…