O'Donnell v. American Sugar Refining Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The American Sugar Refining Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk pf the county of Kings on the 12th day of December, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of December, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The plaintiff in this action recovered a verdict for $25,000 damages on account of personal injuries sustained by him while in the *308employ of the defendant, by reason of the negligence of an incompetent fellow-servant. Upon a motion to set aside the verdict as excessive, the trial judge determined to set it aside unless the plaintiff should consent to' reduce the recovery to $15,000. This he did, and the case now comes before us upon an appeal from the reduced judgment, and also from an order denying the motion for a new trial.
The plaintiff was employed as an oiler of machinery,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Park v. . N.Y. Central H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1898
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