Barrington v. Hotel Astor Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Dudley Barrington, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of July, 1917, upon a dismissal of the complaint by direction of -the court at the close of plaintiff’s case after a verdict in plaintiff’s favor had been rendered by the jury in the sum of $1,000.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant dismissing the complaint after the rendition of a verdict *318in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $1,000. The trial court refused to pass upon the motion to set aside the verdict as against the weight of the evidence or as a matter of judicial discretion, and as he had reserved decision on the motion to dismiss the complaint until after the coming in of the verdict, passed solely on the motion to dismiss the complaint.
On August 3, 1916, the plaintiff registered as a guest at the Hotel Astor in the city of New York at…
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