Court Opinion

ID: 5848918
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 23:54:35.238688+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:44:01.113227
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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ostrau, J.), entered on July 3,1980, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial ordered on the issue of damages only, without costs and without disbursements, unless plaintiff, within 20 days after service upon him of a copy of the order herein, with notice of entry, serves and files in the office of the clerk of the trial court a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict in his favor to $1,750,000 and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If plaintiff so stipulates, the judgment, as so amended and reduced, is affirmed, without *807costs and without disbursements. After review of the record, the damages appear to us to be excessive to the extent indicated. Concur — Kupferman, J. P., Birns, Sandler, Ross and Fein, JJ.