Broads

Defendants appeal from the judgment and from an order denying their motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff, Laura Broads, was the lessee of the second and third stories of a three-story building on Spring Street in Los Angeles, the lease being in writing for a two-year term. Defendants were lessees of the first story. Plaintiff carried on a restaurant in the second story and occupied the third story as a place of residence. Defendants, in the first story, conducted a trunk store. One Boaz Duncan was the owner of the building and leased the premises to the respective parties. Defendants placed signs, advertising their trunk business, against the outside front wall of the second and third stories. This action was to enjoin them from maintaining said signs thereon and to recover the damages alleged to have been caused to plaintiff by the placing and maintaining of the same. Bernard Broads is the husband of Laura Broads and joins as plaintiff solely because of that fact. The court found the facts as above stated and also found that the signs were maintained on the front walls of the second and third stories for three months, that plaintiff was damaged thereby, but that said damages were…