Case Name: WAGNER v. EINHORN
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1904-05-19
Citations: 88 N.Y.S. 370
Docket Number: 
Parties: WAGNER v. EINHORN.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 88
Pages: 370–371

Head Matter:
WAGNER v. EINHORN.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
May 19, 1904.)
1. Trial—Directing Verdict.
Though the evidence would have justified setting aside a verdict for plaintiff, had one been rendered, as being against the weight of evidence, there being some contradictory evidence, it was error to direct a verdict for defendant
V1. See Trial, vol. 46, Cent. Dig. § 383.
Appeal from City Court of New York, Trial Term.
Action by Otto Wagner against Hattie Einhorn From a judgment directed for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
Argued before FREEDMAN, P. J., and TRUAX and SCOTT, JJ.
Epstein Bros., for appellant.
Engel, Engel & Oppenheimer, for respondent.

Opinion:
SCOTT, J.
If the cause had been submitted to the jury and a verplaintiff, court setting it aside as against the evidence. There was, however, some contradictory evidence in the case, and the direction of a verdict was consequently improper. McDonald v. Met. St. Ry. Co., 167 N. Y. 66, 60 N. E. 282.
Judgment and order reversed, and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event. All concur.