Bluett v. Eli Skating Club

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the minor plaintiff when he fell while skating in the defendant’s roller skating rink. The jury rendered a verdict for the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed from the denial of his motion to set the verdict aside and from the judgment. The material facts are not in dispute. On January 24, 1943, the defendant was engaged in the business of operating a public roller skating rink in a building in New Haven. On that afternoon the plaintiff, who was fifteen years of age and an experienced roller skater, went to the rink to…