Legal Opinion

Lacs v. . Everard's Breweries

New York Court of Appeals

Decided April 8, 1902PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 3, 1901, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and an order denying a motion for a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.

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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 3, 1901, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and an order denying a motion for a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The court erred in refusing to allow the defendant to show that either the plaintiff or his former attorney had bribed or attempted to bribe the ivitness Rinlt to give false testimony in favor of the plaintiff. (Nowack v. M. S. Ry. Co., 166 N. Y. 433; McHugh v. McHugh,…

1Per curiam

The plaintiff, who was about four years of age at the time of the first trial, seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained by reason of the alleged negligence of the driver of one of defendant’s brewery wagons in running into and knocking him down in the borough of Manhattan, city of ISTew York, inflicting severe injuries.

This action has been twice tried; at the first trial the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff for $10,000 ; at the second trial the verdict was $20,000.

After the affirmance by the Appellate Division of the judgment entered upon the verdict at the first trial, a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Nowack v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1901

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. People v. . ShilitanoNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
  2. People v. . BuzziNew York Court of Appeals · 1924
  3. Lyles v. . Terry Tench Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1919
  4. Johnson v. SextonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1964
  5. McCoy v. MunroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902

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