Siegman

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment rendered on a verdict of a jury in favor of plaintiffs for the sum of five hundred dollars, damages alleged to have been caused by reason of the injury of Rachel Siegman, due to the negligence of defendants. Plaintiffs are husband and wife, as are defendants.

Defendants operated a hotel, moving picture house, and summer resort at Fetters Hot Springs, Sonoma County, California. On August 14, 1920, the plaintiff Rachel Siegman had attended the moving picture theater operated by the defendants. As she was leaving the building at about half-past 9 in the evening, and proceeding along an inclined wooden walk extending from a platform in front of the theater, which walk was the means of entering and leaving said theater, she slipped and fell on said walk. It is alleged that said walk was improperly and negligently constructed and maintained by said defendants in that certain slats nailed on said walk were loose and broken and not properly affixed to said walk and that as a result thereof said plaintiff was not able to maintain her footing and fell to the ground.

Appellants complain of no errors in the proceedings before the trial…