Dembitz v. Orange County Traction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Irving Dembitz, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 18th day of August, 1911, granting the defendant’s motion for a change of venue.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
This action was commenced in Westchester county on the 11th day of October, 1909. The defendant answered on the 28th day of October in the same year, and the case was tried on the 23d day of May, 1910, resulting in a verdict of $15,000 in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and to grant a new trial was granted, unless the plaintiff, within twenty days from the service of the order, *584should elect to consent to a reduction of the verdict to $9,000,. Both parties appealed from the order, and this- court affirmed the same /without opinion. (145…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Phillips v. TietjenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- Anderson v. Nassau Electric RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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