Case ID: nys_61/html/1140-12.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

LAWLER, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CENT. & H. R. R. CO., Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
    June, 1899.)
    Action by Michael J. Lawler against the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company.
   PER CURIAM.

Judgment and order reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. Held, that the instructions of the trial court to the jury upon the question of damages were calculated to mislead the jury, and that the verdict is excessive.