Shaw v. Skopp
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Benjamin Skopp, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 9th day of July, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury for $20,000, and also from an order, entered in said clerk’s office on the 30th day of June, 1921, denying defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jaycox, J.:
The plaintiff has recovered a verdict against the defendant based upon the contention that the defendant managed and operated his automobile carelessly and negligently. A witness for the plaintiff testified to seeing the defendant driving a big limousine, and volunteered the statement that when he passed the trolley car upon which the witness was riding “ he shot in to the right, right sharp in front oí the car, and there was a machine coming up, and he went in in order to avoid the machine coming up, and he went on against the curb — he zigzagged in the road three or four times…
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