Nash v. Thousand Island Steamboat Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
- Appeal by the plaintiffs, Phillip I. Nash and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs for nominal damages, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 24th day of January, .1907, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Jefferson Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The judgment should be reversed and a new trial -granted, with costs to tlie appellants to abide event.
The action was brought to recover damages for the breach of a contract.- * -
The court ordered a verdict for the plaintiffs, thus determining their right to recover some damages, hut limited the same' to the *149nominal amount of six cents. The plaintiffs alone appeal. The otily question here involved, therefore, is whether the plaintiffs had the right to have the jury pass upon the question whether they were entitled to substantial damages and to determine the amount thereof.' The…
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