Smock v. Mankato Elks Club

Loring, Justice.

Plaintiff recovered a verdict for $150 for burns which she suffered and for damage to her dress occasioned by her dress taking fire while she was attending a party at the defendant’s club rooms on the evening of December 31, 1936. Defendant has appealed from a judgment entered after its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict had been denied.

Briefly, the plaintiff claims that the defendant negligently allowed inflammable material to collect upon its floors during its New Year’s Eve party, and that it was negligent in failing to provide receptacles for used matches,…