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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary E. Sidmonds, Respondent, v. The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Appellant.
    
      Settlement of an order denying a motion for a new trial—not granted after a reversal of the order on an appeal therefrom.
    
    After the jury, impanelled on the trial of an action to recover damages for personal injuries, had rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, the trial judge granted the defendant’s motion for a new trial.made upon the minutes unless the plaintiff would consent to a reduction of the verdict. The plaintiff refused to accept the reduced verdict and took an appeal from the order granting the new trial. Upon such appeal, the Appellate Division reversed the order setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial and directed a judgment to be ■ entered upon the verdict. The defendant thereupon made'a motion for the ■ settlement of a proposed order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
    
      Held, that the motion for the settlement of the proposed order was properly denied, as the defendant had had a full opportunity to be heard upon the merits of the case upon the plaintiff’s appeal from such order.
    Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights. Railroad Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the ■county of Kings on the 12th day of May, 1902, denying the ■defendant’s motion for the settlement of a proposed order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
    
      I. E. Oelandy for the appellant.
    
      Henry Esoher, Jr. \_G-eorge F. Elliott with him on the brief], for the respondent.
   Per Curiam:

This is an action for personal damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the negligence of the defendant. Upon the trial of the action the jury brought in .a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant moved, at the close of the trial, for a new trial upon all of the grounds stated in section 999 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and this motion was granted, unless the plaintiff should consent to a reduction of the amount of the verdict. The plaintiff refused to accept the reduced verdict, and on appeal coming to this court the order setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial was reversed and judgment was directed to be entered upon the verdict. Subsequently the defendant gave notice of intention to submit a proposed order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, and upon such motion being made the learned court at Special Term denied the motion for a settlement of a proposed order, and from the order denying such motion defendant appeals to this court.

We are unable to find any precedent or any necessity for this practice. The defendant had an opportunity to move for a new trial upon the minutes, and the motion was granted upon terms. The plaintiff appealed from this order, and the defendant had a full opportunity to be heard upon the merits; and this court having reversed the order and directed that judgment be entered upon the verdict, there was no necessity for an order denying the motion for a new trial, and there is no reason why the defendant should have a second appeal upon the same question, or one so closely related to the former that it was of necessity disposed of in the determination of the original appeal. No substantial right of the defendant is involved, and the practice, so far as we' are able to discover, has always been in harmony with the contention of the .plaintiff.

The order appealed from should be affirmed, with costs.

All concurred.-

Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.