Weekes v. Adirondack Power & Light Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Adirondack Power and Light Corporation, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Schenectady on the 7th day of July, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury for $25,000, which was reduced by order of the court to $15,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a.new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The jury in this case brought in a verdict for $25,000, which the trial court reduced to $15,000, and the defendant appeals from the judgment, urging that the verdict is not sustained by the weight of evidence upon the issue of the defendant’s negligence, and that the evidence fails entirely to sustain the burden of proof as to the lack of contributory negligence on the part of the decedent.
The defendant concededly installed its meter and pipes for the purpose of supplying illuminating gas to the plaintiffs’ decedent and his family. The plaintiffs allege that previous to the 10th…
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