Legal Opinion
Trotter v. Johnson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 23, 1994PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously reversed on the law without costs, motion granted and new trial granted. Memorandum: Supreme Court should have granted plaintiffs motion for a new trial. After summations and the court’s charge, a verdict sheet containing five questions was submitted to the jury. Question No. 2 of that verdict sheet asked, "Was Defendant’s [Thomas Johnson’s] negligence a proximate cause of the accident?” Question No. 5 asked, "What was the percentage of fault of the Defendant [Thomas Johnson], if any, and what was the percentage of fault of the Plaintiff, if any?” The court instructed the…
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