Reclusado

Kathryn J. Reelusado was awarded $25,000 for serious injuries received in a one-car accident in which the respondents, Beulah Mae Mangum and Marie Bramham, were personally held responsible for primarjr negligence in the selection of the driver of the car and for interference with his driving. The court granted the motion of the defendants for a new trial and the plaintiff appeals.

Originally, there were additional parties to the litigation besides appellant and respondents. The heirs of Kathryn Ferniza, grandmother of Kathryn, who was killed in the same accident, were fellow plaintiffs. The jury brought in a verdict for $1,100 in favor of these heirs and against Beulah Mae Mangum and Marie Bramham. The heirs’ motion for a new trial on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the small verdict was denied and neither side appealed from the judgment in this part of the case so that it has become final. There were also other defendants at the inception of the trial who were dismissed on motion of the plaintiffs’ attorney before the case was submitted to the jury. This dismissal covered James T. Mangum, the driver of the ear, and his father, Bob Mangum, who had…