Roach v. Herz-Oakes Candy Co.

Action for $10,000 damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff's former husband, Mellbourne W. Roach, a window washer who was killed, the result of falling from the fourthstory window of a building belonging to defendant Mercantile-Commerce [760] Bank and Trust Company and situate at 514 Locust Street in St. Louis. The defendant Herz-Oakes Candy Company was joined as a party defendant on the theory such defendant was in the occupancy and control of the building as the lessee of defendant Trust Company.

At the conclusion of plaintiff's evidence, the trial court sustained defendants' motions for…