Cassanova v. Paramount-Richards Theatres

Plaintiff claims that while she was a patron in the Saenger Theatre, a large moving picture house in New Orleans, she sustained serious physical injuries when, as she was descending an aisle stair in the balcony, her left foot was caught between the end standard of a row of seats and the end of one of the steps of the aisle. She charges that the design of the seats and stairs was improper in that between the end of each row of seats and the tread of the step there was left a small open space in which the foot of a patron descending or ascending might be caught, and she also charges that the…