Davis v. Burke
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Mackintosh, J., entered January 30, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, for personal injuries sustained in an elevator accident.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
The plaintiffs recovered a judgment for five thousand dollars against the defendant on account of personal injuries received by the plaintiff Jesse E. Davis as the result of an elevator accident in the Empire building, an office building in Seattle owned by the defendant. The defendant has appealed from that judgment.
The appellant relies upon four alleged errors which we shall briefly notice in their order. At the close of the plaintiffs’ testimony, the court denied a motion for a dix'ected verdict; and after verdict, denied a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. These rulings of…
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