Negligence—Personal Injuries—Pall of Passenger Elevator—Evidence—Qualifications of Expert.—In an action against an incompetent person as the owner of a building and her guardians in their individual capacities for damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff by the falling of a passenger elevator, where the qualifications of, a witness as an expert were stipulated, there was no error in sustaining an objection to a question testing such qualifications.

Id.—Conduct of Witness—Request to Plaintiff to Retire—Lack of Prejudice.-—In such action the defendants cannot claim prejudicial error on the trial by reason of the fact that plaintiff’s physician, when called to testify as to her injuries, requested her to leave the courtroom, giving as a reason therefor that he did not want to testify in her presence that her injuries were permanent for fear of the bad effect upon her mind and nervous system, and particularly where no exception was taken to such procedure at the time.

Id.—Damages—Pain and Anxiety—Instruction.—An instruction authorizing damages in such reasonable sum as the jury shall award plaintiff on account of pain and anxiety she has suffered by reason of her injury is not' objectionable as assuming that plaintiff had in fact Suffered pain and anxiety, where plaintiff’s foot was twisted at right angles to the position that it ou£ht to assume, the bone broken and protruding, and her back permanently injured.

Id.—Damages not Excessive.—An award of $17,354.80 is not excessive where the plaintiff, an attractive young woman, twenty-five years of age, a student of law, was so permanently crippled in the left foot and ankle that she will never be able to walk without a limp, her spine between the neck and middle of the waist permanently injured, so that at the time of the trial she was unable to occupy an ordinary chair, her nervous system permanently impaired, and extens sive atrophy of the muscles of the back existing and increasing.

Id.—Negligent Operation of Elevator by Employee of Guardian—. Liability of Incompetent Owner.—An incompetent person is liable, for injuries received by a passenger in an elevator owned by the incompetent which injuries resulted from the negligent operation of the elevator by the employee of the incompetent’s guardian.