Arizmendi v. City of New York

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Appellants contend that they were effectively deprived of their constitutional guarantee of a jury of six persons when after a poll a juror revealed that he neither deliberated nor voted on the issue of damages because he was the sole dissenter on the issue of liability. Appellants first raised this claim, however, in connection with a posttrial motion to set aside the verdict. In that appellants failed to raise this objection before the jury was discharged and thereby afforded the trial court no…