Fall on stairs

Recently, the courts decided a case where a theater-goer was injured after the lights had been turned off. The court held that A theater did not proximately cause injuries that a patron suffered from a fall from a stairs by suddenly turning the lights off before a performance. The strips of lights on the stairs were functioning, the patron of the theater should have expected that the lights in the theater would be turned off before the show began, common law authority did not prescribe a procedure of flashing or dimming lights before going off, and preventing house lights from being turned off until everyone was seated would have amounted to a prescription of conduct exceeding a duty of reasonable care.