Amachee v. Mohammed

When a party moves pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a) to set aside a verdict as unsupported by legally sufficient evidence and for judgment as a matter of law, the court must determine “whether There is simply no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences which could possibly lead rational [people] to the conclusion reached by the jury on the basis of the evidence presented at trial’ ” (Mirand v City of New York, 84 NY2d 44, 48-49 [1994], quoting Cohen v Hallmark Cards, 45 NY2d 493, 499 [1978]; see Raugalas v Chase Manhattan Corp., 305 AD2d 654, 655 [2003]). Here, there was adequate evidence…