Case ID: ad_125/html/0912-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Third Department,
    March, 1908.
    Margaret J. Sofield, an Infant, by Louise Sofield, Her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. Hyman Jacob and Others, Appellants.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, dated the 3d day of June, 1907, and entered in the Sullivan county clerk’s office; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of July, 1907, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
   Per Curiam

: The evidence in this case does not justify exemplary damages. The damages awarded are excessive. The judgment .and order are, therefore, reversed, and a new trial granted, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. All concurred. Judgment and order reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide event.