Gabrielson v. Swinburne

Respondent, as plaintiff, brought this action to recover damages caused by an alleged unlawful ejection from leased premises. The cause was tried to a jury, which returned a verdict against the defendant in the sum of nine thousand dollars. On a motion for a new trial, the verdict was reduced to five thousand dollars. The reduction was accepted by the plaintiff, and judgment was entered on the verdict as reduced. The defendant has appealed.

For an understanding of the questions to be determined, a brief statement of what the jury might, and probably did, believe the governing facts to be must…