Burger v. Nassau County

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Burger v. Nassau County

57 A.D.2d 564, 393 N.Y.S.2d 550, 1977 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11528

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedApril 11, 1977

StatusPublished

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Burger v. Nassau County, 57 A.D.2d 564, 393 N.Y.S.2d 550, 1977 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11528 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1977).

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In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered October 30, 1975, which is in favor of defendant upon the trial court’s dismissal of the complaint at the close of plaintiff’s case, at a jury trial. Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. The trial court erred in holding as a matter of law that the defendant county’s negligence was not a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries. There is a difference in the rule of law to be applied when enough facts have not been adduced to warrant submission of the issue to a jury and the setting aside of the verdict as contrary to the weight of the evidence (see Blum v Fresh Grown Preserve Corp., 292 NY 241). Here the trial court, by dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint, never reached that stage of the proceeding in which it could consider the question, if the jury found in favor of the plaintiff, whether the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. Margett, Acting P. J., Shapiro, Titone and O’Connor, JJ., concur.

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In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered October 30, 1975, which is in favor of defendant upon the trial court’s dismissal of the complaint at the close of plaintiff’s case, at a jury trial. Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. The trial court erred in holding as a matter of law that the defendant county’s negligence was not a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries. There is a difference in the rule of law to be applied when enough facts have not been adduced to warrant submission of the issue to a jury and the setting aside of the verdict as contrary to the weight of the evidence (see Blum v Fresh Grown Preserve Corp., 292 NY 241). Here the trial court, by dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint, never reached that stage of the proceeding in which it could consider the question, if the jury found in favor of the plaintiff, whether the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. Margett, Acting P. J., Shapiro, Titone and O’Connor, JJ., concur.

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57 A.D.2d 564, 393 N.Y.S.2d 550, 1977 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11528, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/burger-v-nassau-county-nyappdiv-1977.

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