Duke v. Fargo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross-appeals in each case by the plaintiffs, William Dulce and William Glynn, and the defendant, James C. Fargo, as president, from two judgments of the Supreme Court, one in each case, in favor of the respective plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of January, .1916, upon the verdicts of juries in the first case for $1,500, reduced by the court to the sum of $1,000, and in the second case for $2,750, reduced by the court to…
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Cross-appeals in each case by the plaintiffs, William Dulce and William Glynn, and the defendant, James C. Fargo, as president, from two judgments of the Supreme Court, one in each case, in favor of the respective plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of January, .1916, upon the verdicts of juries in the first case for $1,500, reduced by the court to the sum of $1,000, and in the second case for $2,750, reduced by the court to $1,500, and also an appeal is taken from two orders, one in each case, entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of…
1Opinion of the Court
Carr, J.:
These two actions were tried as one, and come before this court on appeal upon one record. They were brought by the several plaintiffs to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from the same accident, as to which the defendant did not dispute liability for negligence. The only question involved at the trial was the amount of damages properly recoverable by the several plaintiffs. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff Duke in the sum of $1,500, and for the plaintiff Glynn in the sum of $2,750. Thereupon the defendant moved to set aside the verdicts for each plaintiff,…
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