Case Name: Griggs, Appellant, v. Day et al., Respondents
Court: New York Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1891-01-05
Citations: 12 N.Y.S. 958
Docket Number: 
Parties: Griggs, Appellant, v. Day et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 12
Pages: 958–958

Head Matter:
Griggs, Appellant, v. Day et al., Respondents.
(Superior Court of New York City, General Term.
January 5, 1891.)
Argued before Sedgwick, C. J., and Freedman and Ingraham, JJ.
Robt. G. Ingersoll, for appellant. Melville C. Day, for respondents.

Opinion:
Freedman, J.
The court, for the reasons stated by the chief judge in his opinion, came to the conclusion that the judgment should be reversed and a new trial had. 11 N. Y. Supp. 885. At the time of the announcement of the decision it was thought, however, that perhaps a new trial could be obviated, if the defendants were to give a stipulation consenting to a reduction of the amount of the judgment recovered by them against the plaintiff, in accordance with the principles laid down in the opinion, and a suggestion was made to that effect. Having now heard counsel on the settlement of the order to be entered, and it being conceded by both sides that under the said opinion the plaintiff is entitled to a credit of $1,736,600, with interest from May 1,1883, to the date of the referee's report, but the respondents being unwilling to consent to such determination unless they receive a corresponding credit of $325,262.66 for the notes not paid by second mortgage bonds, and this new difference between the parties being of such a nature as to make it proper, in view of the complicated state of the accounts, that they should have a further hearing concerning it upon a new trial,—I am of the opinion that the order to be entered should provide for the unconditional reversal of the judgment upon the facts as well as the law, and for a new.trial in accordance with the principles laid down in the opinion.