King v. Curtis

A judgment of nonsuit will be upheld on appeal only if a ground specified in support of the motion is a good ground, or some ground exists that could not have been cured had it been specified. (Lawless v. Calaway (1944), 24 Cal.2d 81, 94 [147 P.2d 604, 610].) It was error to grant the motion in this case, for a noneurable ground does not exist, and no ground appears to have been specified.

Of greater moment, the evidence warranted a judgment in plaintiff’s favor on his third cause of action. These allegations of the third cause of action were not denied: that plaintiff and defendant Trader…