Case ID: ad_168/html/0938-03.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

Lillian A. Burton, Respondent, v. W. Burton & Co. and Others, Appellants.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the New York county clerk’s office on the 3d day of December, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury, and from an order entered on the 34th day of December, 1914, .denying a motion for a new trial.
   Per Curiam:

We think that the finding of the jury that there was a delivery of this stock by the defendant Burton to the ■ plaintiff was against the weight of evidence. The judgment and order are, therefore, reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide event. Present — Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin, Laughlin, Clarke and Scott, JJ.; Laughlin and Scott, JJ., dissented and voted for affirmance. Judgment and order reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide event.