Court Opinion

ID: 5410443
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:08:14.744411+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:46.583643
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Per Curiam.

The issues were tried before the court and jury and a verdict rendered for defendants. A motion *524was made to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial. This motion was granted without costs. A subsequent motion was made by defendants to resettle said order by inserting the grounds upon which the order was granted. This motion for a resettlement was denied, and from the order entered thereon the defendants appeal. The original order states that “ the said Justice, * * * immediately after the rendition of the said verdict, having entertained a motion made on his minutes on behalf of plaintiff to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, to be granted on the exceptions taken on behalf of the plaintiff at the trial and upon all the grounds set forth in section 999 of the Code, except that the verdict was excessive, because the verdict was contrary to the law and contrary to the evidence, and after hearing * * * Ordered,” etc. The grounds upon which the motion was made sufficiently appear in the order, but the ground or grounds upon which it was granted are not specified. Rule 31 of the General Rules of Practice provides: “Where an order grants or refuses a new trial, except on the exceptions taken during the trial, it shall specify the grounds upon which the motion was made and the ground or grounds upon which it was granted.” • The learned court below has written an opinion which the Appellate Court will consider in order to ascertain the reason of the court below for granting the application to set aside the verdict and allow a new trial. Bryant v. Allen, 54 App. Div. 504. It appears clearly from this opinion that the verdict was set aside as contrary to the evidence, and not on exceptions taken during the trial. The order appealed from comes within the provisions of Rule 31, and the failure to recite the grounds upon which it was granted warrants a reversal.-
The order is reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion to resettle is granted, with ten dollars costs.
Present: Gildersleeve, MacLean and Ambito, JJ.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion to resettle granted, with ten dollars costs.