Kinney v. Taylor
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Tolbert, J.), entered April 17, 2002, which denied his motion pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a) to set aside a jury verdict in favor of the defendant and against him on the issue of liability.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
A jury verdict must be set aside as a matter of law where there is “no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences which could possibly lead rational [persons] to the conclusion reached by the jury on the basis of the evidence…
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