Holmes v. Gross

Ruth Gross is in the café business in Kingsley, Plymouth County. She maintains a café known as “Ruth’s Café” on one of the main streets of the town. A new building was added to her business in 1954, erected immediately west of the old café, in which new building she maintains a dining room. The only connection between the two places of business was a folding door at about the center of the rooms. Custom*241ers can enter both café and dining room directly from the street.

Plaintiff was sales manager of a Sioux City Lumbermen’s Supply Company. On the evening of March 28, 1957, the retail lumbermen…