Boucher v. Paramount-Richards Theatres

Plaintiff, Mrs. Clementine Boucher, widow of John W. Luthjens, on the evening of January 6, 1944, entered the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, and after witnessing a motion picture exhibition left the theatre shortly after 7:00 o'clock, P. M. In emerging from the theatre, she left that portion thereof where the motion picture was shown, then crossed the inner foyer, and then went out of a door into the arcade which runs from Rampart Street to Basin Street, which is brilliantly lighted. Upon entering this arcade, she turned left and walked towards Rampart Street and when she reached a point in…