Workman v. Bolen

Hugh R. Elwyn, Acting County Judge.

The defendant appeals from a judgment of the Justice’s Court of the Town of Fallsburgh in the amount of $150 plus- $10 costs, entered upon the verdict of a jury after trial of a negligence action.

The defendant raises two points of law upon this appeal. First, it is urged that the Justice of the Peace committed error in refusing to charge the jury, although the defendant’s counsel specifically requested him to do so, and in refusing all of the defendant’s requests to charge, and second, that the verdict of the jury represents a compromise verdict which may…