Miller v. Poli's New England Theatres, Inc.

The Palace Theatre in Waterbury is owned and operated by the defendant as a moving picture theatre. The floor of the auditorium slants downward toward the stage. In consequence, beginning with the fourteenth row from the stage, twenty-nine rows of seats to the rear rest on platforms elevated above the aisle, the elevations increasing gradually until the platform on which the last row of seats rests is seven and one-half inches above the aisle. In the afternoon of November 27, 1937, the plaintiff and her sister entered as patrons and selected seats in the rear row, the plaintiff occupying the…