Raffetto v. Warner Bros. Theatres, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The female plaintiff with her husband was one of the audience at a moving picture theatre claimed to have been operated by the defendant corporation. The performance over, she and her husband were leaving the theatre, and for that purpose had to descend a staircase. On the third or fourth step the heel of Mrs. Raffetto’s shoe “caught in some obstruction on the stair,” and she fell forward down the stairs, sustaining plrysical injury for which she sued, her husband joining his claim for damages per quod. The ease was tried without jury, and…