Waizman

Plaintiff sued for injuries received in an automobile collision. The cause was tried before a jury and resulted in a verdict for plaintiff and against the defendants Black and Hazel Reding in the sum of ten thousand dollars. The defendant Reding alone appeals from the judgment following the verdict, upon typewritten transcripts.

Two grounds of appeal are advanced—that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict against this appellant and that the verdict is excessive.

On September 1, 1927, the plaintiff was returning from Yosemite Valley riding as the guest of the defendant Black in the latter’s Ford coupe. At about 1:30 P. M. of that day, as they approached from the south the intersection of the Yosemite highway with G Street in the city of Merced, the car driven by the appellant approached the same intersection traveling east on G Street. As the appellant’s car had about crossed the intersection of the two streets the Black car crashed into it, striking the right rear wheel and fender of appellant’s car with the front right wheel and fender of the Black car. As a result of the collision the Black ear went up in the air, landed on its radiator and then on its top with…