Bahadur v. G. C. Construction Corp.

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Friedman, J.), entered June 3, 1998, which, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the plaintiffs and against it in the principal sum of $500,000.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the facts and as a matter of discretion, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.

*515In the instant case, “[t]he jury’s initial finding that [the injured plaintiffs] negligence was not [a] proximate cause of the accident was inconsistent with the finding that [he] was…