Manhattan Quality Clothes, Inc. v. Cable

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment of dismissal based upon a motion made after the impaneling of a jury and after counsel for plaintiff had made his opening statement, objecting to the introduction of any evidence and moving for dismissal upon the ground that the plaintiff’s complaint and opening statement failed to show any cause of action.

The principal allegations of the complaint are to the effect that the appellants had, for some time, been engaged in a profitable retail mercantile business in the city of Seattle and were so engaged on May 16, 1927, and occupying certain…