Reneau

This is an appeal by defendant, Eugene D. Hirsch, from a judgment entered against him upon a verdict of a jury in the sum of $20,719, in an action for damages for personal injuries.

The verdict was divided as follows: $18,000 for physical injuries; $2,719 for medical attention, hospital bills and loss of time.

The essential facts are not in dispute and may be thus briefly stated: The plaintiff and respondent, Arnold H. Reneau, at the time he received the injuries complained of, was a minor of the age of seventeen years, employed as a delivery boy by a grocery store in the city of Ocean Park, and receiving a salary of $18 per week. On July 7, 1923, respondent was removing groceries from his automobile truck, which he had parked near the curb on the east side of Main Street in the city of Ocean Park, when defendant’s automobile, driven by his chauffeur at a high rate of speed, collided with said delivery truck and crushed respondent’s left leg between the truck and a telephone pole located near the curb. Bespondent’s left leg was almost entirely severed from his body above the knee, there being only an anterior flap holding the two parts of the leg together. Numerous pieces of…