Hatch v. Lewis

Jury verdict was for plaintiff for $500. On motion for new trial, the court directed additur of $2,000 (Jehl v. Southern Pac. Co., 66 Cal.2d 821 [59 Cal.Rptr. 276, 427 P.2d 988],), raising the total award to $2,500, and granted new trial, limited to the issue of damages only, if defendant did not accept the additur. Defendant did not accept, but appealed.

Although the notice of appeal runs to the judgment as well as the order granting limited new trial, appellant’s brief states that he does not prosecute the appeal from the judgment. Thus there is no attack on the adequacy of the evidence to…