Case ID: nj-misc_2/html/0426-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MAX MARGOLIES (FIVE CASES), PLAINTIFFS, v. HARRY GOLDBERG, DEFENDANT.
    Submitted February term, 1924
    Decided May 26, 1924.
    False Arrest — Alleged Verdict Against Weight of Evidence and Excessive Damages — Rule to Show Cause Dismissed.
    On rule.
    Before Gummeue, Chtee Justice, and Justices Minturx and Black.
    Eor -the plaintiffs, Wight, Wight & Golenboch and Merritt Lcme.
    
    Eor the defendant, Thomas Brown.
    
   Pee Ceeiam.

These five cases were brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages alleging false arrest at the instigation of: the defendant, Harry Goldberg. By consent the cases were tried together, resulting in a verdict of: $500 for each plaintiff. The defendant obtained a rule to show' cause and writes down six reasons for a new trial, which are argued under two heads in the brief — first, the verdicts are against the weight of the evidence; second, the damages awarded to each of the plaintiffs are excessive and contrary to the evidence. Not so. Our reading of the testimony leads us to the result that there is no legal merit in either reason argued. The testimony is quite voluminous. It would serve no useful purpose to review' in detail. The rule to show cause in each ease is discharged.