Ziegler v. Providence Biltmore Hotel Co.

These are two actions of the case for negligence brought respectively by Anna P. Ziegler, to recover for personal injuries resulting from a fall on the stairs of the defendant’s hotel, and by her husband, Alvin A. Ziegler, to recover consequential damages suffered by reason of such injuries to his wife. The death of the husband was suggested upon the record before trial and Anna P. Ziegler, as administratrix of his estate, was substituted as plaintiff in his case. Both cases were tried together in the superior court before a justice sitting with a jury and, at the conclusion of the evidence,…