Schamel v. St. Louis Arena Corporation

WOLFE, Presiding Judge.

This is an action to recover damages arising out of personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when she fell in a rollerskating rink operated by the defendant in the City of St. Louis. There was a verdict ■ and judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $3,500 and after the trial court overruled a timely motion for a new trial the defendant appealed.

The evidence revealed that the plaintiff, a woman fifty-one years of age in the company of a man named Czerwinski, went to the Arena Rollerskating Rink on October 23, 1956. They arrived at the rink around 7:45 in the evening…