Jorgensen v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

— In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Harwood, J.), dated October 30, 1984, as, upon a jury verdict finding that the plaintiff Lawrence Jorgensen was 50% at fault and the defendant was 50% at fault in the happening of the accident and determining the plaintiff Lawrence Jorgensen’s damages to be $140,000 and the plaintiff Mary Lou Jorgensen’s damages to be $18,000, awarded them the principal sums of $70,000 and $9,000, respectively.

Judgment reversed insofar as appealed from, on the…