Case ID: ad_208/html/0766-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Clarke, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Michael Silberberg, Trading under the Firm Name and Style of Empire Manufacturing Company, Respondent, v. M. Ascher Silk Corporation, Appellant.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the New York county clerk’s office February 5, 1923, upon the verdict of a jury; also from an order entered February 3, 1923, allowing interest upon the verdict, and also from an order entered January 31, 1923, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
    Judgment and orders affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Present — Clarke, P. J., Smith, Merrell, Finch and Martin, JJ.; Clarke, P. J., and Merrell, J. dissent.
   Clarke, P. J.

(dissenting):

The verdict, in my opinion, was clearly against the weight of the evidence. Furthermore, plaintiff having sued for $25,000, and the court having charged at the request of plaintiff’s counsel that if the jury behoved the plaintiff’s story and plaintiff’s witnesses they might find a verdict for the plaintiff for $6,615, besides interest, and the jury having returned a verdict for $2,500, there is no basis in the evidence for such a finding, and it was evidently a compromise verdict. I, therefore, dissent and vote to reverse and grant a new trial.