Chipperfield v. Posi-Seal International

OPINION

FRANCIS J. BOYLE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff obtained jury verdicts against three of the individual Defendants in this action in the amount of $1,100,000 each after a lengthy trial. The Court, after hearing, granted Defendants’ motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and for new trials by a decision filed July 28, 1982. A judgment which embodied the Court’s decision was entered on August 19, 1982, and admittedly received by Plaintiff’s counsel on August 19, 1982. Although Plaintiff’s counsel had previously advised Plaintiff that he would be unavailable, for personal reasons, to…