Taylor

This is an action for personal injuries. Upon a trial by jury plaintiff recovered a judgment for $7,500, from which judgment defendant appeals.

’ Appellant’s first contention is that the verdict is so excessive as to indicate passion or prejudice on the part of the jury. A review of the evidence convinces us that this contention is without merit. Prior to the accident respondent was a healthy, robust woman of the age of fifty-four years. She had been a professional nurse for thirty-five years and from that work she had an average monthly income of $160 per month. The accident occurred on the Pacific highway near Cottonwood on June 16, 1928. The force of the impact threw respondent from the automobile she was driving into a water' ditch adjoining the highway. When she recovered consciousness she was pinned under the machine in mud and water with a portion of the machine across her hips. Respondent did not suffer any broken bones, but in addition to lacerations and contusions her major injuries consisted of concussion of the brain and nerve injury. The lacerations and contusions themselves were of a serious nature. She was “black and blue from head to foot and skin was knocked off…