Foley v. Hotel Touraine Co.

On May 28, 1946, about 10:45 p.m. the

plaintiff, a business invitee, was hurt while descending a stairway in the defendant’s hotel in Boston. The plaintiff’s exceptions are to the exclusion of evidence and to the granting of the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

The plaintiff and three other young women had entered the Tremont Street entrance leading to the coffee shop, and were walking down the stairs to the shop. The plaintiff testified that when she reached the third step from the top she was thrown down “by reason of her foot slipping upon and through a foreign substance upon that…