Standard Oil Co. of California v. Shields

— This is an appeal by Standard Oil Company of California, a corporation, and W. J. Kelly, defendants, from a judgment in favor of Helen Shields, plaintiff, for damages resulting from an automobile accident. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $51,436.40. On the motion for new trial, the trial court granted a remitter of $8,000, thus reducing the amonnt of the judgment to $43,436.40, and it is from this latter judgment that the appeal is taken.

There are twelve assignments of error which raise seven propositions of law, which we shall consider in their order. The…