Brown v. Appleton Masonic Temple Asso.

Plaintiff sustained injury upon falling while walking on a ballroom floor, and in seeking to recover damages under the safe-place statutes, secs. 101.01 and 101.06, from defendant, as the owner of the building, she charges that her injury was due to the unsafe and hazardous condition of the floor. On the trial it was proven that the floor had been waxed about four months prior to the time plaintiff fell; that it was then well lighted; and that she walked across the floor and fell as she was about to enter the doorway leading from the ballroom to an adjacent rest room. She testified that as…