Court Opinion

ID: 5797215
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:20:45.232237+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:27.725516
License: Public Domain

— In consolidated negligence actions to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the appeals, as limited by appellants’ briefs, are from (1) so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, entered May 16, 1973, as (a) is in favor of plaintiffs in Action No. 1 and (b) is in favor of plaintiff Kathryn R. Ryan in her individual capacity and (2) a decision (mislabeled as an order in both notices of appeal) of the same court, dated April 9, 1973, which denied their motions to set aside the jury verdicts on grounds including inadequacy. Appeal from decision dismissed. A decision is not appealable (Goldberg v Orzac, 30 AD2d 697, affd 23 NY2d 919). Judgment reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, and as to plaintiff Eleanor Horner against respondent village, and plaintiff Kathryn R. Ryan, individually, against respondent village, actions severed and new trial granted upon the issue of damages only, with costs to abide the event, unless, within 30 days after entry of the order to be made hereon, said respondent shall serve and file in the office of the clerk of the trial court a written stipulation consenting to increase the verdicts in favor of plaintiff Eleanor Horner to $7,500 and in favor of plaintiff Kathryn R. Ryan, individually, to $5,000 and to the entry of an amended judgment accordingly, in which event the judgment, as so increased and amended, is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs. This court has considered the questions of fact and has determined that it would not grant a new trial upon those questions. In our opinion, the verdicts were inadequate to the extent indicated herein. We have considered the other claims made on these appeals, including appellant Ryan’s claim of legal error, and find them to be without merit. Martuscello, Acting P. J., Latham, Cohalan and Munder, JJ., concur.