Tyner

The plaintiff, who is the respondent, and a resident of Hanford, in Kings County, was a passenger on the fifteenth day of February, 1929, in an automobile operated by her son, Homer C. Tyner, and in a collision, which occurred in the neighborhood of Sanger, in Fresno County, with a car driven by defendant and appellant, suffered severe injuries. She was thrown out of the automobile, rendered unconscious for a short time, sustained a lacerated wound on her forehead, fractures of both arms near the wrists, one of them a comminuted fracture, which resulted in some deformity as well as weakness, an injury to the extensor muscles of a ligament in the left leg, besides numerous and painful bruises about her body. She was sixty years of age at the time of the accident. Upon the suggestion of a stranger, who came to the scene of the accident shortly thereafter, she was taken to the hospital of a Dr. L. P. Fleming at Sanger. Upon her arrival there she was very much excited and remained in a highly nervous condition during several weeks following. She carried splints on her arms for a period of seven weeks.

On the eighteenth day of February a man named W. O. Reed, who was an adjuster for…