Legal Opinion
Coratti v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided December 30, 1969No. Claim No. 46778PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSidney Squibb, J.
This memorandum relates solely to the practice and procedure pertaining to the contents of proposed decisions consisting of proposed findings of fact and proposed conclusions of law.
In too many cases in this court where trials are conducted before a Judge without a jury, have the proposed decisions been examples of battology. At Bar a claim ex contractu, the proposed conclusions of law submitted were commendable in number: one by the claimant and four by the defendant. However, for the proposed findings of fact, claimant had 239 and the defendant, 137. Each was overly lengthy. The claimant’s…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Union Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1944
- Grace v. Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co.New York Supreme Court · 1939
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- R. J. Berke & Co. v. J. P. Griffin, Inc.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1976
- Berkun v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1972