Lind v. City of Seattle

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment dismissing their action with prejudice.

All of plaintiffs’ assignments of error are directed to the fact that the trial court sustained a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence at the close of plaintiffs’ case.

March 25, 1954, plaintiffs filed a motion for a new trial. The record before us does not contain an order granting or denying this motion. However, the record does contain a letter dated July 19,1954 (filed July 20,1954), from the trial judge to counsel for both parties, which concludes that “the motion for a new trial will be overruled.”

The…