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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jacob Starr, as Administrator of the Estate of Mayer Starr, Deceased, Respondent, v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Appellant.
    Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
    February 16, 1943.
    
      James D. Ewing and William B. McDermott for appellant.
    
      Bernard Gordon, Maurice J. Fleischman and William B. Sandler for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

The decision in 257 App. Div. 261, which reversed the judgment entered after the prior trial holding the verdict for plaintiff was contrary to the weight of the evidence, is controlling here. Although there is additional proof on each side, we think the weight of the evidence remains substantially the same. Defendant’s proof of occupation and activity for subsequent periods, corroborated by motion pictures, weakens the testimony thereon by plaintiff’s witnesses.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with thirty dollars costs to appellant to abide the event.

All concur. Present — McCook, Hammer and Rosenman, JJ.