Case ID: ad_124/html/0919-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Houghton, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gustav Gelderman, as Administrator, etc., of Josiah W. Gelderman, Deceased, Appellant, v. Grove D. Curtis and Walter F. Blaisdell, Copartners in Business under the Firm Name and Style of Curtis & Blaisdell, Respondents.
    
      Trial —negligence—preponderance of evidence and credibility of witnesses for jury.
    
    Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Suprem'e Court, entered in the clerk’s office of the county of New York on the 22d day of October, 1907, on a verdict in favor of defendants; and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of October, 1907, denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.
   Houghton, J.:

On a former appeal taken by defendants this court reversed the judgment (120 App. Div. 400), on the ground that the verdict of the jury in plaintiff’s favor was against the weight of evidence. On the new trial granted by such reversal the defendants obtained a verdict in their favor,, and the plaintiff now appeals. While there is some change in the evidence, the facts, as well as the credibility of the witnesses, were for the jury to determine. There is no' such preponderance of evidence in favor of the plaintiff as authorizes us to interfere with the present verdict. The judgment and order must, therefore, be affirmed, with costs. Ingraham, McLaughlin and Laughlin, JJ.,' concurred; Patterson, P. J., dissented. Judgment and order affirmed, with costs.