Case Name: Jacob Enden et al., Respondents, v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-03-04
Citations: 225 A.D.2d 515
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jacob Enden et al., Respondents, v Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 225
Pages: 515–516

Head Matter:
Jacob Enden et al., Respondents, v Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant.
[638 NYS2d 774]

Opinion:
The testimony of the plaintiffs' witnesses at trial, as well as their incomplete business records, raised crucial questions of fact regarding whether in the first instance the plaintiffs suffered a loss of business income/property by means of a burglary, and/or whether any such alleged loss amounted to as much as $75,000, which was the full face amount of the commercial insurance policy at issue. Since it cannot be said that the jury could not have found for the defendant by any rational process, it was error for the trial court to grant the plaintiffs' motion for judgment as a matter of law (see, Dolitsky v Bay Isle Oil Co., 111 AD2d 366; see also, Siegel, Practice Commentaries, McKinney's Cons Laws of NY, Book 7B, CPLR C4401:4, at 407). O'Brien, J. P., Sullivan, Copertino and Joy, JJ., concur.