Legal Opinion
Du Bose v. Velez
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided July 17, 1970PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIrving Younger, J.
This case involves the question whether a Trial Judge may decline to submit a dishonest case to the jury.
The complaint — dealing with an ordinary automobile accident alleged to have occurred on August 23, 1965 — runs to 23 paragraphs. Extracting from its prolixity something like the “ plain and concise statements ” required by CPLR 3014, it reads as follows:
“Plaintiff Rena Du Bose was * * * a passenger in the motor vehicle owned by defendant Duke Cab Corp. and operated by defendant Santiago Velez * * '* the motor vehicle * * * in which plaintiff Rena Du Bose was a passenger, was at a…
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