PORTER v. CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB, INC.

Docket No. 16323.

134 Cal.App.2d 158 (1955)

285 P.2d 60

EMMAJENE PORTER, Appellant, v. CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB, INC. (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

June 27, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur D. Klang for Appellant.

Alexander, Bacon & Mundhenk and Guernsey Carson for Respondents.


DOOLING, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of nonsuit. She was injured while a spectator at the race track operated by defendant when another spectator ran into her so violently as to knock her down.

Appellant testified that she attended the track on Monday, October 13, 1952, a day celebrated as a holiday since Columbus Day fell on a Sunday that year. Between the second and third races she left the place where she was sitting so that she might place a bet...

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