Belles v. City of Tacoma
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Easterday J., entered March 1, 1913, dismissing an action in tort, upon granting a nonsuit.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The appellants, husband and wife, brought this action against the respondent to recover for personal injuries, sustained by the wife from a fall upon the floor of a public building owned by the respondent city, commonly known as the municipal dock. The appellants were nonsuited in the court below, and appeal from the judgment entered against them.
At the time of her injury, Mrs. Belles, the injured appellant, was passing hurriedly through the building from a boat landing, intending to take a car, which was then about due, to her home. As she reached a point in the building described as…
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