Court Opinion

ID: 5387205
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 09:31:29.239496+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:14.715835
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Shientag, J.
(dissenting). The Trial Justice denied the motion to set aside the verdict of the jury, there being as he said “ a question of the credibility of the witnesses ”. Under those circumstances, the unanimous verdict of the jury should be permitted to stand, a fair trial having been had and no error or misdirection claimed (Beckwith v. New York Central R. R. Co., 64 Barb. 299, 309; Boyd v. Boyd, 252 N. Y. 422, 429; Watt v. Thomas, [1947] 1 All E. R. 582, 584).
I, therefore, dissent and vote to affirm.
Peek, P. J., Dore, Cohn and Van Voorhis, JJ., concur in decision; Shientag, J., dissents in opinion.
Judgment reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event, on the ground that the jury’s verdict is against the weight of the evidence.