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Action for damages for alleged negligence of the defendant. Prom a judgment on a directed verdict in favor of the defendant the plaintiff appeals.

The defendant is the owner and proprietor of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena. The hotel and grounds surrounding the same and used in connection therewith occupy about eighty acres of land. In the vicinity of the hotel buildings are roadways leading to and from public highways to the north and west. The roadway to the north runs toward the

Raymond Hotel station of the Santa Fe Railway extending a distance of about three hundred feet through the hotel grounds. The remaining distance from the hotel grounds to the station is for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, by way of a city street. Paralleling the northerly roadway and about fifty feet easterly therefrom is a narrow pathway maintained for the use of the guests of the hotel during the season when the hotel is in operation. For a certain distance in this pathway, at the time of the injury complained of, three twelve-inch boards were laid side by side lengthwise the walk. The regular hotel season for the year of 1922-23 opened on December 28, 1922, and closed on April 12, 1923. By special…