Sokolow v. City of Hope

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, appeal from an adverse judgment entered upon a directed verdict in their action to recover damages resulting from personal injuries suffered by plaintiff wife 1 when she tripped and fell to the floor. We have concluded that the evidence is sufficient to support a verdict in plaintiffs’ favor, and that the judgment should be reversed. Purported appeals from the verdict and from an order denying plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial, being from nonappealable orders, must be dismissed. (Sawyer v. Sunset Mut. Life Ins. Co. (1937), 8 Cal.2d 492, 501 [66 P.2d 641].)

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