Coken v. Peterson

This is a personal injury action with verdict and judgment for $3,500.00 in favor of plaintiff. Defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff about 11:00 P. M. on November 2, 1945, went to a tavern owned by defendant in Chicago. She was sixty-five years old at the time. She sat at the bar and had a glass and a half of beer. She then left the bar intending to go to the ladies’ washroom, walked to a swinging door in the east wall, pushed it open, and walked through the doorway. The door swung back leaving her in a 4' x 4' vestibule from which one door opened east into a kitchen, in the rear of the premises…