Case Name: Frances L. Glover, Respondent, v. The Manhattan Railway Company and Another, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-06
Citations: 94 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 621
Docket Number: 
Parties: Frances L. Glover, Respondent, v. The Manhattan Railway Company and Another, Appellants.
Judges: Present — Van Brunt, P. J., Follett and Parker, JJ.
Reporter: Supreme Court Reports (Hun)
Volume: 94
Pages: 621–621

Head Matter:
Frances L. Glover, Respondent, v. The Manhattan Railway Company and Another, Appellants.

Opinion:
Judgment reversed, new trial ordered, costs to appellants to abide event.
Per Curiam:
The evidence in this case is entirely unsatisfactory. An examination of the testimony of the expert Mangam leads to the impression that it is utterly unreliable and should not furnish the basis for any judgment. He seems to be uncertain both in his ideas and his figures, and a perusal of this testimony necessarily produces distrust in either his knowledge or his ingenuousness. This testimony seems to have formed the basis of the judgment, and we think it is wholly unsatisfactory and insufficient. It is true that certain other evidence was given by the plaintiff and her husband. But this evidence seems to be altogether inadequate to sustain the findings oi the court below. It appears to have been assumed that the court was to infer damage, and that it was the duty of the defendant to disprove the same. This, however, is not the rule which is to govern the disposition of cases such as the one at bar. The judgment appealed from should be reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellants to abide the event.
Present — Van Brunt, P. J., Follett and Parker, JJ.