McCulley v. Cherokee Amusement Co.

The plaintiff, by his next friend, brought suit in the Circuit Court of Campbell County against the defendant for damages for personal injuries received while attempting to enter defendant’s motion picture show through a hole in the wall of a small furnace room adjoining the main building. The declaration describes the hole in the wall of the furnace room as an opening “through which fresh air was forced from the outside into the inside of said theater building by the operation of an electric fan.” The electric fan was a “large, heavy, mechanical device, apparently enclosed in a covering of…