Lentine v. Jacobs

This is an application for leave to compromise an action for personal injuries instituted on behalf of an infant. The amount offered in settlement is $800 in the infant’s action and $100 for the parents’ loss of services. On April 7, 1928, the infant was struck by a taxicab, sustained a compound fracture of the skull, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he remained until April 16, 1928; thereafter he was under the care of a private physician, and continued to visit the out-patient department of the hospital for a number of months. No affidavit of the attending physician is presented, nor is…