Hanna v. Bodler

This action was brought by a husband and wife to recover from the owners and a tenant of a building in Spokane for personal injuries sustained by the wife as the result of her fall into a unguarded area-way of the defendant owners’ building. A jury was empaneled to try the cause. At the conclusion of plaintiffs ’ case in chief, defendants moved for a nonsuit, and the court announced that the motion would he granted. Plaintiffs made a motion for a new trial on three distinct statutory grounds, as follows: Irregularity in the proceedings of the court; insufficiency of the evidence to justify…