Temperance Hall Ass'n v. Giles
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to Mercer Circuit. This action was brought by Mrs. Giles to recover of the defendants, the Temperance Hall Association of Trenton, damages for an injury received by falling into an area or passage way leading to a cellar under the Temperance Hall, in the city of Trenton. The facts, as proved on the trial, were substantially these: In the spring of 1867, a course of medical lectures was being delivered in the large hall belonging to the Temperance Hall Association.
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On error to Mercer Circuit. This action was brought by Mrs. Giles to recover of the defendants, the Temperance Hall Association of Trenton, damages for an injury received by falling into an area or passage way leading to a cellar under the Temperance Hall, in the city of Trenton. The facts, as proved on the trial, were substantially these: In the spring of 1867, a course of medical lectures was being delivered in the large hall belonging to the Temperance Hall Association. These lectures had been attended by the plaintiff, in company with many others — the audiences being very large. On the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The plaintiff having proved the situation of the premises, and the location of the area with reference to the sidewalk, and the circumstances under which she received the injury, rested her case. No motion was made for a non-suit. The defendants, as part of their case, proposed to prove (1) that over ten thousand persons had passed and repassed the area, every year since the hall was built, without accident; and (2) that such areas are common in the city of Trenton, and that it is the custom, in said city, to protect them as the area in…
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