Rothbard v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Ruskin, J.), entered September 25, 1995, which, upon a jury verdict in favor of the defendant, dismissed the complaint.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
As a general rule, questions of liability and damages in a negligence action represent distinct and severable issues which should be tried and determined separately (see, CPLR 603; Martinez v Town of Babylon, 191 AD2d 483, 484; Armstrong v Adelman Automotive Parts Distrib. Corp., 176…
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