Johnson v. City of New York

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered July 16, 1992, dismissing the complaint upon a jury verdict, in favor of defendant, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this tort action brought by a prison inmate seeking to recover monetary damages for personal injuries sustained during a spontaneous fight with other inmates in a correctional facility, we find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in directing a bifurcated trial where the plaintiff failed to make a convincing showing that the issues of liability and damages were intertwined (Szeztaye v…