Peters v. City of Seattle

— This is an appeal by defendant, from a judgment entered upon a verdict for plaintiff in an action for wrongful death. Error is assigned to the denial of defendant’s demurrer to the evidence at the close of all the testimony, and of its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. Defendant contends that the evidence fails to establish its negligence and does establish the contributory negligence of plaintiff’s decedent, as a matter of law.

Interpreting the evidence and all reasonable inferences from it most favorably to plaintiff, and most strongly against defendant, as we are obliged to…