Bluemel

Plaintiff sued for damages for personal injuries. The jury awarded him a verdict of $6,000, which the trial judge reduced to $3,500. The defendant appeals on typewritten transcripts.

Plaintiff was riding as the guest of Joe Kroizy, who was operating his automobile along the main highway from Tracy to Livermore in the midst of a heavy Sunday afternoon traffic. Defendant Johnson was operating her car along the same highway in the same direction. As she endeavored to pass the Kroizy car she crashed into a car being driven by Ball in the opposite direction. Plaintiff sued the three operators. He dismissed as to Ball and recovered judgment against the other two. Upon a separate appeal we affirmed the judgment as to Kroizy. (Bleumel v. Kroizy, 113 Cal. App. 585 [ 298 Pac. 825 ].)

On this appeal the appellant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment against her. The sole complaint is that appellant was prejudiced by respondent’s interrogation of one of her witnesses whereby it was disclosed to. the jury that she was covered by insurance.

The appellant called as her first witness Willard Ball, through whom she endeavored to prove that the co-defendant…