Legal Opinion
MacLaughlin v. Hull
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 18, 1937No. 8253PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
The appellant was injured by a fall which occurred in the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Wash., on the evening of February 25, 1935, at 10:30 p. m. She had attended a banquet in the Spanish ballroom of the hotel. The floor level of the Spanish ballroom was 18 inches above the floor, level of the women’s lounge, so that she was required to descend two steps, or three risers, in order to reach the floor of the women’s lounge. She fell from the top of these steps.
Appellant alleges that the difference in lighting and the furnishing of the two rooms was such that she failed to…
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