Bridger v. Gresham

Where the evidence submitted in behalf of the plaintiff was to the effect that he went to the office of the defendant’s hotel, at night, to offer berries for sale, and a guest informed him that the proprietor was out, but that his boy, who might buy the berries, was in the dining-room oi' kitchen ; that, relying upon his knowledge of the premises, plaintiff undertook to go in search of the boy, and opened and went out of a door leading from the office, which was lighted, on to a back veranda where there was no light, closing the door as he passed out, and while walking along the veranda in…