Wilcox v. Morrow
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment unanimously affirmed with costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied defendants’ motion to set aside the verdict pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a). "A jury verdict should not be set aside as against the weight of the evidence unless the jury could not have reached the verdict on any fair interpretation of the evidence” (Martin v Seaman, 184 AD2d 996, lv denied 80 NY2d 759). In our view, the jury reasonably determined that defendants were negligent in creating conditions that permitted the water in plaintiff’s apartment to become dangerously hot and that defendants’ negligence was the…
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