Laidlaw v. Sage
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Russell Sage, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiif, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of June,, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the New York Circuit, and also from an order bearing date the 18th day of June, 1895, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
We are asked to reverse the judgment'appealed from and to send this cause back for a fifth trial upon a record containing something over two hundred exceptions, applying in various -ways to almost everything not in the interest of the defendant said or done by the justice who presidéd at the last trial. We have carefully examined, the whole case and find there was no error committed of a character or sufficient in gravity to call for the resubmission of the issues to a jury) and that the case is now in such condition that the important question of the liability of the defendant-…
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