Butler v. King

The defendants had a duty to maintain reasonable conditions of safety and the plaintiff was entitled to place some reliance on the performance of that duty. Cartier v. Corporation, 92 N. H. 263; Holmes v. Stores, 95 N. H. 478; Monier v. Belzil, 97 N. H. 176. However the plaintiff is precluded from recovering damages if he received his injuries as a result of encountering a known danger to which he paid no heed. Paine v. Association, 91 N. H. 78, 79. In that case it was held that a basketball player, injured when he fell against bleachers close to the playing court, could not recover. In…