O'BRIEN v. Peterson

The plaintiff, a guest at the defendant’s summer hotel, was injured when she fell into a hole while walking along shore line property adjacent to the hotel at about nine o’clock on the evening of June 30, 1945. The plaintiff had a verdict, and the case is here upon the defendant’s exception to the denial of a motion to direct a verdict for him.

The hotel faced the ocean and was located about three hundred feet away and upon a bluff about thirty feet above the water level. The land descended gradually from the hotel to the ocean, and a strip of this land adjacent to the ocean and extending on…