Ward v. F. R. A. Operating Corp.

On Labor Day night, September, 1932, Mrs. Marie A. K. Ward attended a moving picture performance at the Farragut Theatre on the corner of Flat-bush avenue and Farragut road, Brooklyn, N. Y. She was seated on the right-hand side of the middle aisle in about the seventh or eighth row from the front, and the third seat in. The place was filled and all the seats were taken. She had not been there very long when in front of her and a little to the side near the stage, an explosion took place, causing “ a panic and great confusion, and the crowd of course screamed and the theatre appeared to be on…