Legal Opinion
Tate v. Colabello
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 10, 1983PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
This appeal poses questions which commonly recur in the trial of damage issues in personal injury litigation. These arise in the context of a $320,000 jury verdict in favor of 15-year-old Liza Tate, who two years earlier had been struck by defendants’ motor vehicle, which allegedly ran a traffic light while she and three other youngsters were crossing a city street.
On defendants’ CPLR 4404 motion, the trial court, after reserving decision on a claim of excessiveness alone and *86expressly declining to reconsider rulings which it had made adversely to the…
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