Shayne v. White
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Horace White and others, as trustees and successors in interest to The Evening Post Publishing Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of June, 1902, as resettled by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of June, 1902, denying the defendants’ motion to amend the verdict of a jury rendered in this action.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
This appeal is from an order made at the Trial Term, which was intended to have the effect of denying a motion made by the defendants to amend the verdict of a jury. The action was for a libel, and upon the trial the plaintiff recovered a verdict which appears from the appeal book to have been rendered in the following words:: “We find for the plaintiff compensatory nominal damages in the-, sum of six cents, and $2,000 punitive damages.” It also appears therefrom that counsel for the defendants moved that the record of the verdict be amended by striking out the words, “ and…
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