Case Name: Alice Cora Leverich, Respondent, v. Adolph Casden, Individually and as Copartner, Doing Business as Robert Casden & Son, Defendant, and Robert Casden, Appellant; Herbert Leverich, Respondent, v. Adolph Casden, Individually and as Copartner, Doing Business as Robert Casden & Son, Defendant, and Robert Casden, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1937-12-17
Citations: 253 A.D. 742
Docket Number: 
Parties: Alice Cora Leverich, Respondent, v. Adolph Casden, Individually and as Copartner, Doing Business as Robert Casden & Son, Defendant, and Robert Casden, Appellant. Herbert Leverich, Respondent, v. Adolph Casden, Individually and as Copartner, Doing Business as Robert Casden & Son, Defendant, and Robert Casden, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 253
Pages: 742–743

Head Matter:
Alice Cora Leverich, Respondent, v. Adolph Casden, Individually and as Copartner, Doing Business as Robert Casden & Son, Defendant, and Robert Casden, Appellant. Herbert Leverich, Respondent, v. Adolph Casden, Individually and as Copartner, Doing Business as Robert Casden & Son, Defendant, and Robert Casden, Appellant.

Opinion:
Action brought by the plaintiff wife to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by reason of her fall to the cellar through an opening in the floor of the defendant-appellant's store, and by her husband to'recover damages for loss of her services. Upon the trial the jury rendered a verdict for $3,000 in favor of the wife, and for $875 in favor of the husband. From separate judgments entered on that verdict and from separate orders denying defendant's motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, defendant appeals. Judgments of the County Court of Westchester county and orders severally reversed on the facts and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event, unless within ten days from the entry of the order hereon the plaintiffs respectively stipulate to reduce to $1,500 and $500 the amounts of the verdicts rendered in their favor respectively; in which event the judgments as so reduced and the orders are severally unanimously affirmed, without costs. The amounts awarded are excessive. Hagarty, Davis, Adel, Taylor and Close, JJ., concur.