Weiner v. E. M. Loew's Enterprises, Inc.

The defendant operated a moving picture theater in Hartford. A flight of stairs led from the street to the main auditorium' of the theater. The stairs as well as the floor of the auditorium were covered with carpeting in three sections; one section covered the orchestra floor and aisles, one section covered the stairway up to a point three inches beyond the nosing of the top landing, and a third piece, about a foot wide, was sewed to the stair carpet and to the carpet on the orchestra floor. Three inches back of the nosing of the top landing was a seam where this strip was sewed to the stair…