Gavrilutz v. Savage
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Joseph K. Savage, from, a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 27th day of April, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The plaintiff has recovered a judgment, reasonable in amount, for injuries suffered by her in consequence of a fall induced by a defective staircase in the tenement house owned by defendant. The evidence justified the verdict and we find no legal error in the record requiring a reversal. Our attention is, however, called by defendant to an alleged error in the admission of evidence as to which it seems proper to say a word.
Among the witnesses called by the plaintiff was a boy nine years of age. The court examined him on the voir dire and made the following statement: “The Court: On…
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