Green Ex Rel. Jackson v. Kahn

PAUL VAN OSDOL, Special Commissioner.

Plaintiff Debra Green had verdict and judgment for $50,000 for severe, disabling and disfiguring burns suffered in a fire in an apartment which plaintiff’s mother, Shirley Green, who perished in the fire, occupied as a tenant of defendants Samuel Kahn and Evelyn, his wife, owners of the demised premises.

After the trial, however, the trial court sustained defendants’ motions for judgment in accordance with defendants’ motion for a directed verdict filed at the close of all the evidence and, in the alternative, for a new trial. Subsequently, the trial court…