Case Name: Tessie Guinta, Respondent, v. Yoost Photo Play Theatre Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1926-01-21
Citations: 126 Misc. 375
Docket Number: 
Parties: Tessie Guinta, Respondent, v. Yoost Photo Play Theatre Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 126
Pages: 375–375

Head Matter:
Tessie Guinta, Respondent, v. Yoost Photo Play Theatre Company, Appellant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
January 21, 1926.
Alfred W. Andrews [James Gibson Ewell of counsel], for the appellant.
Abram S. Jaffer, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The trial judge has the power to grant or deny a motion upon legal grounds to set aside a jury's verdict. But when that authority is once exercised his statutory powers are exhausted. (Colwell v. N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., 57 Misc. 623; Duran v. Chelsea Exchange Bank, 123 id. 158; Conolly v. Jolly, 86 id. 42.) It was, therefore, error for the court to entertain the motion for a reargument of its denial of the motion to set aside the verdict which error requires a reversal of the order. The order appealed from is reversed, with thirty dollars costs, and verdict reinstated.
All concur; present, Guy, Wagner and Lydon, JJ.