Case ID: ad_124/html/0934-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lizzie Merkel, Appellant, v. Alexander Lazard and Others, Respondents.
    
      Principal and agent — yohen apparent-.authority of agent a question for jury — decision rendered on prior appeal construed.
    
    Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the Supreme Court entered in the clerk’s office of the county of New York on the 22d day of May, 1907, dismissing the complaint. ■
   Per Curiam:

On a prior appeal by the defendants from a judgment entered upon a direction of verdict in favor of plaintiff this court held the facts proved raised a .question for the jury and reversed the judgment and directed a new trial (114 App. Div. 25). On such new trial the learned trial court granted a nonsuit and the plaintiff appeals.. No new facts were developed on the second trial justifying such a disposition of the case. The witnesses Mueeke.and Frankenhauser were examined in greater detail on the last trial hut nothing new as to their course of dealing or as to the manner in which their checks were, drawn was developed, Qur former decision remains the law of the case and should be followed by the trial court. That decision determined that the proofs made a . question of fact clearly pointed for a jury to pass upon. The nonsuit was improper and the judgment must be reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event. Present—Patterson, P. J., Ingraham, Lauglilin, Clarke and Houghton, JJ. Judgment reversed, new trial ordered, costs to appellant to abide event.