Helms v. Fox Badger Theatres Corp.

The injury to the plaintiff Enacia Helms, for which she and her husband seek to recover damages, was sus tained upon her falling to the floor, while walking in defendant’s theater through a doorway from a rest room to the mezzanine floor, on a step which extended, on the level of the rest-room floor, one and three-quarters inches beyond the door when closed. The step was seven inches above the mezzanine floor, so that a pérson walking through the doorway to the mezzanine floor had to step down seven inches. The door to the rest room opened inward, and on the inside there was a space of five…