Medcraft v. the Merchants Exchange

Action for damages for personal injuries. At the conclusion of the evidence the court, on motion of defendant, granted a nonsuit and judgment followed from which plaintiff appeals upon a full record. The facts are not in dispute and those here material may be set forth within a narrow compass:

Defendant owns a large office building in the city and county of San Francisco known as The Merchants Exchange Building. Offices therein are rented .to tenants for their own use and the use of all persons having business with them. Plaintiff, an insurance manager, on December 13, 1919, had business with…