Legal Opinion

Norton v. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided April 26, 2012PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane S. Solomon, J.), entered January 21, 2011, after a jury trial, upon a verdict in favor of defendant, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The trial court did not err in declining to charge defendant’s former employee as an interested witness in the absence of any evidence that his testimony was biased or that he was personally interested in the outcome of the matter (cf. Lowenstein v Normandy Group, LLC, 51 AD3d 517 [2008] [former employee of defendant and participant in accident who had motive to shield himself from blame properly charged as…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Lowenstein v. Normandy Group, LLCAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008
  2. Pena v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Jett v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016

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