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This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff as the result of his collision, while riding a bicycle, with an automobile driven by the defendant.

The accident occurred in July of 1915 and the case was tried in December of 1916 by the court sitting without a jury. Findings and judgment were given in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of four hundred dollars; but from this judgment the plaintiff has appealed, bringing up all of the testimony under the alternative method.

[1] In its brief plaintiff contends that the findings with respect to the extent of the plaintiff’s injuries are not justified by the evidence and that the evidence without substantial conflict shows that plaintiff sustained permanent injuries which will make him a cripple for life; and that he has been and will be in the future prevented from working at his trade as a carpenter; and that consequently the judgment awarded him by the court in the sum of four hundred dollars is wholly inadequate and insignificant and that the court “was biased and prejudiced against the appellant and that as a result thereof he did not have a fair trial. ’ ’

In this case the not unusual duty was…