Wilson & Baillie Manufacturing Co. v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Wilson and Baillie Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk 6f the county of Hew York on the 22d day of April, 1907, pursuant to an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of April, 1907, and also from the said order upon which the judgment appealed from was entered.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
This action was tried on the 12th and 13th of March, 1907. At the conclusion of the trial the learned justice sitting at Trial Term directed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $8,179.90, and denied defendant’s request to go to the jury. Thereupon the defendant'moved to set aside the verdict, which motion was entertained, and on the fourth of April following the verdict was set aside and a verdict directed for defendant.
The trial had closed and the jury been discharged and it is difficult to see, under such circumstances, how the court could direct a verdict .for the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Williams v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
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