Casoni v. Town of Islip

This is a motion by the plaintiff to set aside a ten to two verdict rendered by the jury in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff as administrator sought to recover damages by reason of the death by drowning of his daughter, Jean Irene Casoni, due, he alleges, to the negligence of the defendant.

Plaintiff’s daughter, at the time of the drowning on August 29,1948, was fourteen years of age, was a student at Bay Shore High School, was approximately 5 feet, 3 inches tall, and weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. She and a friend, Emma Jane Smith, a girl eighteen years of age, also a resident of…