Case Name: George F. Secor and Another, Appellants, v. Millard Heyman, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1924-05-08
Citations: 123 Misc. 168
Docket Number: 
Parties: George F. Secor and Another, Appellants, v. Millard Heyman, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 123
Pages: 168–169

Head Matter:
George F. Secor and Another, Appellants, v. Millard Heyman, Respondent.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
May 8, 1924.
Trial — arguments of counsel — action by stockbrokers against customer — prejudicial error for defendant’s counsel to state that many "men are sitting on benches in park because they lost money in Wall street.
In an action instituted by a firm of stockbrokers to recover against its customer the price of certain stock purchased it was prejudicial error for the defendant’s counsel to state to the jury that “ there is many a man sitting on the benches in the park because he lost his money down in Wall street.”
Gut, J., dissents.
Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, first district, in favor of the defendant entered upon the verdict of a jury.
. Philip C. Samuels (Philip C. Samuels and Max Lazarus, of counsel), for the appellants.
Abraham B. Keve, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
In an action instituted by a firm of stockbrokers to recover against its customer the price of certain stock purchased on his behalf, the defendant's counsel in his summation to the jury said: " There is many a man sitting on the benches in the park because he lost his money down in Wall street." This remark was unwarranted and grossly prejudicial to plaintiffs' rights, and demands a reversal of the judgment and a new trial.
Judgment reversed and a new trial ordered, with thirty dollars costs to appellants to abide the event.
Wagner and Wasservogel, JJ., concur; Guy, J., dissents.
Judgment reversed.