Case Name: FIRST CALDWELL OIL COMPANY, A CORPORATION, APPELLANT, v. WALTER E. HUNT, RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1925-01-19
Citations: 101 N.J.L. 240
Docket Number: 
Parties: FIRST CALDWELL OIL COMPANY, A CORPORATION, APPELLANT, v. WALTER E. HUNT, RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 101
Pages: 240–240

Head Matter:
FIRST CALDWELL OIL COMPANY, A CORPORATION, APPELLANT, v. WALTER E. HUNT, RESPONDENT.
Decided January 19, 1925.

Opinion:
Walker, Chancellor
(concurring). By our present statute and rides of court it is right to grant a new trial on the sole question of the inadequacy (or excessiveness) of damages, when it is clearly separable from that of liability. Robinson v. Payne, Director General (Court of Errors and Appeals), 99 N. J. L. 135. In nry opinion these questions are entirely separable in this case. It is true that that of damages depended upon liability, but the quantum, of damages is in nowise,dependent upon liability. I think a new trial should be granted on the issue of damages only.
Justices Kalisdi and Katzenbach and Judge Gardner authorize me to¡ say that they concur in this view.