Winslow

Action for damages for personal injury. Plaintiff, who was seventy-six years of age at the time of the injury complained of, was walking along the sidewalk of a street in the city of Glendale, and her feet becoming entangled with a wire stretched across the sidewalk, she tripped and fell upon the pavement, dislocating her knee, spraining her wrist, and bruising her face, shoulder, leg and ankle, rendering her generally lame and crippled. The jury rendered a verdict in her favor against the defendant for the sum of $2,000, upon which verdict judgment was entered.

Defendant appeals from the judgment and from an order denying its motion for a new trial; and as reasons for a reversal of the judgment contends: (1) That the evidence shows that the wire which threw the plaintiff to t'he ground was placed across the sidewalk by the employees of one John C. Seaman, who was engaged in construction work for defendant as an independent contractor and not as an employee of the defendant corporation; (2) that plaintiff was, guilty of contributory negligence; (3) that the amount of damages awarded by the verdict is excessive; (4) that the court erred in its rulings upon some seventy-two…