Case Name: GOTTLIEB v. FINE
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-02-18
Citations: 121 N.Y.S. 236
Docket Number: 
Parties: GOTTLIEB v. FINE.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 121
Pages: 236–236

Head Matter:
GOTTLIEB v. FINE.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
February 18, 1910.)
Courts (§ 190 )—Municipal Courts—Review op Proceedings.
Where the stenographer’s minutes in a case are lost, and the appeal comes before, the court on affidavits, pursuant to Municipal Court Act (Laws 1902, c. 580) § 319, disclosing a sharp conflict of testimony on material facts in the court below, the interests of justice will be best Sub-served by ordering a new trial.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Courts, Dec. Dig. § 190.]
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, First District.
Action by Herman Gottlieb against Jacob Fine. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Argued before SEABURY, LEHMAN, and BIJUR, JJ.
Ely Rosenberg, for appellant.
Herman Gottlieb, for respondent.
For other eases' see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep'r Indexes

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The stenographer's minutes in this case are lost, and the appeal comes before the court upon affidavits, pursuant to section 319 of the Municipal Court act. The affidavits disclose that there was a sharp conflict of testimony upon material facts in the court below. This method of disposing of such a case.upon appeal is unsatisfactory, and we think the interests of justice will be best subserved by ordering a new trial.' Kirsch v. Halbach (December App. Term, not, yet officially reported) 120 N. Y. Supp. 740.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, without costs to either party.