Case Name: MAX MARGOLIES (FIVE CASES), PLAINTIFFS, v. HARRY GOLDBERG, DEFENDANT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1924-05-26
Citations: 2 N.J. Misc. 426
Docket Number: 
Parties: MAX MARGOLIES (FIVE CASES), PLAINTIFFS, v. HARRY GOLDBERG, DEFENDANT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 426–427

Head Matter:
MAX MARGOLIES (FIVE CASES), PLAINTIFFS, v. HARRY GOLDBERG, DEFENDANT.
Submitted February term, 1924
Decided May 26, 1924.
False Arrest — Alleged Verdict Against Weight of Evidence and Excessive Damages — Rule to Show Cause Dismissed.
On rule.
Before Gummeue, Chtee Justice, and Justices Minturx and Black.
Eor -the plaintiffs, Wight, Wight & Golenboch and Merritt Lcme.
Eor the defendant, Thomas Brown.

Opinion:
Pee Ceeiam.
These five cases were brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages alleging false arrest at the instigation of: the defendant, Harry Goldberg. By consent the cases were tried together, resulting in a verdict of: $500 for each plaintiff. The defendant obtained a rule to show' cause and writes down six reasons for a new trial, which are argued under two heads in the brief — first, the verdicts are against the weight of the evidence; second, the damages awarded to each of the plaintiffs are excessive and contrary to the evidence. Not so. Our reading of the testimony leads us to the result that there is no legal merit in either reason argued. The testimony is quite voluminous. It would serve no useful purpose to review' in detail. The rule to show cause in each ease is discharged.