Goldstein v. Cornwall

The question to be determined upon this appeal is whether, where a case has been submitted to a jury upon two issues, on one of which the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, a general verdict can be permitted to stand.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff procured burglary insurance through the defendants, as brokers, suffered a loss by burglary, but Was unable to collect the insurance because of a misrepresentation by the brokers to the insurance company that there was on plaintiff's premises a Holmes burglary alarm in good working order. *403The plaintiff sued the brokers to…