Hartley

Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Hartley

Good Law
160 F.2d 1019·1947 U.S. App. LEXIS 2721
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 3, 1947No. 11399California325 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Denman, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a jury tried case in which appellee, plaintiff below, recovered $3,000 from appellant, defendant below, for personal injury arising from the improper insertion of a hearing device in appellee’s ear by an employee of appellant. There was also special dam *1020 age for expense in appellee’s treatment, which is not here contested.

That the appellee suffered serious injury and great pain caused by the act of appellant’s agent is not questioned. The sole issue here is whether the district court erred in giving the portion of an instruction to .the jury,, italicized by us, as follows :

There is evidence of two months’ severe pain suffered hy. appellee, ending about six months before the trial, and evidence of a feeling in his ear like a fly, bothering him up to six w;eeks before the trial, and that his wife noticed, a big difference in his hearing after the accident. There is also evidence that the memory of his past pain caused appellee to cry on the witness stand while telling his story to the jury.

Appellant claims that this evidence is not that required by Section 3283 of the California Civil Code, providing

It cites the California Supreme…

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