Morris v. Cleveland Hockey Club, Inc.

The first question for our consideration is whether defendant was entitled to a judgment in the trial court as a matter of law or whether the question of defendant’s alleged negligence and the contributory negligence and assumption of risk upon the part of plaintiff constituted questions of fact to be determined by the jury.

Defendant contends that there was an absence of showing of causal connection between its claimed negligence and plaintiff’s injuries for the reason that even if defendant were guilty of negligence in not erecting protection along the side of the arena in conformity with…