Alexandre v. Westchester Newspapers, Inc.

Upon this motion to set aside a verdict in plaintiff’s favor, defendant urges, first, that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, and, second, that, as to all but a small part of the recovery, it is contrary to law, in that the transactions upon which it is based were illegal and void and the contract relating thereto is unenforcible.

As to the first ground: Mr. Kenney, formerly employed by defendant as city editor of the Mount Vernon Daily Argus, one of the newspapers published by defendant, testified that he made, with plaintiff’s husband and agent, the contract set forth in…