Roach
Roach v. Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sturtevant, J.
The plaintiffs are husband and wife. The wife joined her husband and commenced an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The defendant answered, and a trial was had before the court sitting with a jury. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant has appealed.
In the complaint it is alleged that the defendant is a corporation and that it owns and operates an office building at the corner of Montgomery and Market Streets in San Francisco; that on the nineteenth day of March, 1926, it maintained on the tenth floor of said building a rest-room for the general use and benefit of women who had occasion to use the facilities of said building; “ . . . that on said date said defendant Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company, a corporation, negligently and carelessly maintained the entrance to said rest-room in this: that entrance to said rest-room was gained from the hallway on said tenth floor of said office building through a doorway in which said doorway was hung a solid panel door, which said door- opened inwards from said hallway into said rest-room; that immediately inside of the threshold of said doorway was…