Fullem v. Syracuse Transit Corp.

This is a motion by the defendant to reduce a jury’s verdict to conform to the ad damnum clause of plaintiff’s complaint.

The plaintiff and defendant both submit memoranda of law and plaintiff further submits two affidavits in support of his contention that a clerical error had been made.

On November 21, 1972, after proof had been completed by both sides, the jury after due deliberation found a five-sixths verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant in the sum of $1,000. Defendant then in open court moved to reduce the verdict to $600, the amount demanded in the plaintiff’s…