Case Name: Minnie A. McDougall and Harold L. McDougall, Respondents, v. Thomas Skeados, Sued Herein as Thomas Shados, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1933-12
Citations: 240 A.D. 997
Docket Number: 
Parties: Minnie A. McDougall and Harold L. McDougall, Respondents, v. Thomas Skeados, Sued Herein as Thomas Shados, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 240
Pages: 997–998

Head Matter:
Minnie A. McDougall and Harold L. McDougall, Respondents, v. Thomas Skeados, Sued Herein as Thomas Shados, Appellant.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs. Young, Hagarty and Tompkins, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., votes for affirmance upon the ground that the facts show that the defendant had maintained a nuisance as a matter of law; Davis, J.: I concur for affirmance on the ground stated by the presiding justice, and on the further ground that the defendant is bound by the law of the case. There is no supervisory power in this court over verdicts to give another opportunity to a defeated litigant to try his case on a new theory if he has been unsuccessful on the theory adopted and acquiesced in on the trial. Here the defendant accepted the doctrine charged by the court as to the cellar doors being a nuisance as a matter of law, without exception or request to charge a different rule. He is bound by the instruction given, whether it be erroneous or not. (Saulsbury v. Braun, 223 App. Div. 555; affd., 249 N. Y. 618.)