Linker v. Sears Roebuck & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dye, J.), entered August 9, 1995, which, upon a jury verdict, dismissed the complaint.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
Inasmuch as the plaintiffs failed to show that the accidents referred to in the trial transcript in an unrelated case were substantially similar to the injured plaintiffs accident, the trial court did not commit reversible error in excluding a portion of that trial transcript from evidence (see, e.g., Sawyer v Dreis & Krump…
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