Dively v. Penn-Pittsburgh Corp.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

Plaintiff, a registered nurse, went one evening with an escort to witness some boxing bouts at the Motor Square Garden in Pittsburgh. Just as the exhibition was concluding, she left her companion in order to go to the ladies’ room. Seeing an archway over which was the sign “Ladies,” she entered through it into a small alcove or area about five feet square. In front of her, and forming the far boundary of this.little space, stood a screen, about eight feet high, of the type used in theatrical scenery; between its left end and the sidewall of the alcove there was a…