Jacobson v. Yoken's, Inc.

The chief contention of the defendant is that there was insufficient evidence to submit the question of the plaintiff’s negligence to the jury, and that its motions for non-suits and directed verdicts should have been granted. Taking the evidence most favorable to the plaintiff, it could be found that the plaintiff was injured while attending a regional meeting of Hadassah, a Zionist women’s organization at Yoken’s restaurant at Portsmouth, arrangements for which had been made the previous March. The meeting was scheduled to commence around ten A. M. with a coffee hour followed by a business…