Chase v. New York City Transit Authority

In a negligence action to recover damages for wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Bambrick, J.), dated December 13, 1984, which is in favor of the plaintiffs and against it, upon a jury verdict, in the principal sum of $300,000 on the cause of action to recover damages for wrongful death and $50,000 on the cause of action to recover damages for conscious pain and suffering.

Judgment modified, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, (1) by reversing so much of the judgment as awarded damages for…