Franklin v. Engel
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Columbia county, C. F. Miller, J., entered June 5, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $500 damages for personal injuries sustained in a fall through a trap door on defendant’s premises.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
The appellant was the owner of a brick building in Dayton, Washington, in the front of which he was conducting a general merchandise store, and iu *481the rear thereof — separated from the main store room by a partition — he was condneting a restaurant. There was a doorway through this partition, leading from the store room into the room' used as a restaurant; and, in the comer of the store room, on the left of one entering the restaurant, was a small room which was used in connection with the restaurant as a private booth, and on the sides of which, next to the store room, were placed coat or…
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