Case Name: Benjamin Finkel, Respondent, v. John Davidson et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1898-06
Citations: 23 Misc. 764
Docket Number: 
Parties: Benjamin Finkel, Respondent, v. John Davidson et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 764–764

Head Matter:
SUPREME COURT — APPELLATE TERM,
JUNE, 1898.
Benjamin Finkel, Respondent, v. John Davidson et al., Appellants.
' Appeal from a judgment of the District Court in the city of New York for the fourth judicial district rendered in favor of the plaintiff/ '!'-.■/
Abraham H. Sarasohn, for appellants.
Jacob Rieger, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We think the justice below had-no power to modify, the. judgment as he did/ and for that reason it should he reversed. • We also think that the question put to the plaintiff on cross-examination, " Didn't you know as a clbakmaker from an experience of four years when a. man is hired for a certain time a writing is given, and if a writing is not given! he is hired from week to .week? " should have been allowed, as it had some bearing upon his credibility in view of -the nature of the ¡arrangement with the defendants to which he testified. ",
' Judgment reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellants to abide the event. j
Present:. Beekman, P, J., Gildersleevé andfGiEGERicH, JJ.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide event. • ' !