Baugh v. McCleskey

This is a suit by appellant •for damages for injuries sustained by her in jumping from the burning McCleskey Hotel in Ranger, in the summer of 1924. The appel-lees were the owners of the building, which was being operated as a hotel by a tenant under a lease contract. At the conclusion of the testimony the trial "judge peremptorily instructed a verdict in favor of the appellees, upon which verdict judgment was rendered that appellant take nothing by her suit. From this judgment an appeal has been .perfected to this court, and we are called upon to determine whether or not, in our opinion,…