Graves v. Charlotte Lodge No. 392 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks

Plaintiff, as a patron of defendant’s Bingo game, was an invitee to whom it owed a duty to exercise ordinary care to keep its premises in a reasonably safe condition. It was not an insurer of her safety. Case v. Cato’s, Inc., 252 N.C. 224, 113 S.E. 2d 320. No inference of actionable negligence on the part of defendant arose from the mere fact that plaintiff fell on its premises as a result of stepping on a plug which had fallen from one of its chairs. Fanelty v. Jewelers, 230 N.C. 694, 55 S.E. 2d 493. The transcript discloses no fact or circumstance suggesting that the plug had been on the…