Schwartz v. International Vaudeville Co.

After the plaintiff purchased a ticket of admission, she walked into the defendant’s theatre and was told by one of the defendant’s ushers, “ Better seats upstairs in the balcony.” She then went to the first balcony, and, as she was walking down the steps thereof, she fell and was injured.. These steps were alternately wide and narrow. She testified, “ It was dark,” and *583that, as she proceeded down the steps, she held on with her right hand to the back of the seat at the end of each row of seats. She also testified: “ Q. Were you able to see whether the step you were coining to was a narrow…