Johns v. Ash

Citations

• 50 Wash. 559
• 97 P. 748
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 783

Syllabus

<p>Dangerous Premises — Actions—Cause of Accident — Evidence— Sufficiency. There is sufficient evidence that the cause of plaintiff’s injury was a cellar door, maintained by defendant between his two buildings and projecting over four feet into the street, where it appears that the distance between the two buildings was only twenty-three feet, that plaintiff left one of the buildings and had gone only a short distance when he fell on something and when he recovered he found himself lying on the cellar door, and other witnesses only a few feet distant heard the plaintiff cry out and found him injured on the door.</p>