Legal Opinion
Lanzano v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 12, 1988PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bellacosa, J.
The primary action is by an injured New York City sanitation employee seeking damages for personal injury. He appeals, contending that the trial court’s instruction to the jury that the award of damages would not be subject to income taxation constituted error and aggrieved him because the jury awarded him less than it would have absent that instruction. We affirm the Appellate Division order upholding the trial court ruling because the instruction was not erroneous.
On February 20, 1980, plaintiff Thomas Lanzano suffered a line-of-duty injury while working as…
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