Gaddis v. Ladies Literary Club
Utah Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
McDonough, chief justice.
Appeal from a judgment entered upon an order granting a motion to dismiss made at the close of appellant’s evidence. Affirmed.
Appellant, admittedly a business visitor of respondent, slipped and fell upon the stage in respondent’s auditorium. As a cause of action against the club, she alleged in her complaint that:
“Defendant was negligent toward plaintiff in that:
“(a) At some time prior to the afternoon of April IS, 1950, it caused to be applied to the stage in the immediate vicinity of the West stairs a wax in such extreme quantity or of such inferi- or quality or in…
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- Dunham v. Hubert W. White, Inc.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1938
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