Morales v. County of Nassau

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Winick, J.), dated December 2, 1997, which, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the plaintiff and against it in the principal sum of $1,550,000.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered as to both liability and damages, with costs to abide the event.

The plaintiff produced evidence which tended to establish that, shortly after entering her car on the evening of February 13, 1992, her husband, Teodoro Morales, who had been hiding…