Porter v. California Jockey Club, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of non-suit. She was injured while a spectator at the race track operated by defendant when another spectator ran into her so violently as to knock her down.

Appellant testified that she attended the track on Monday, October 13,1952, a day celebrated as a holiday since Columbus Day fell on a Sunday that year. Between the second and third races she left the place where she was sitting so that she might place a bet. Returning she proceeded down a stairway in order to get back to her seat. At this point she stated that she saw a man running up the same stairway…