Moffatt v. Buffums' Inc.

This appeal is taken by the plaintiff from a judgment of dismissal entered against her after defendants ’ motion for a nonsuit was granted. The action was one for false imprisonment. The trial court’s ruling must therefore be examined in the light of the numerous and uniform decisions of this state which hold in effect that the motion for nonsuit “admits the truth of plaintiff’s evidence, and every inference of fact that can be legitimately drawn from it, and the evidence should be interpreted most strongly against the defendant”. (Miller v. Cookson, 89 Cal. App. 602 [265 Pac. 374].) “Every…