Legal Opinion
Freedman v. Clinton Court Corp.
Rochester City Court
Decided July 5, 1937PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTompkins, J.
The plaintiff attended defendant’s theatre on February 22, 1936. On leaving the theatre about nine p. m., as she started to go down the stairway leading from the balcony to the ground floor, she slipped on either the landing or the adjacent first or second steps of the stairway, and was injured thereby.
The plaintiff makes seven specific charges of negligence against the defendant in maintaining this main stairway in its picture house known as Loew’s Rochester Theatre, as follows: (1) It failed in the violation of the city ordinances of Rochester to maintain said stairway so as to prevent…
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