Hood v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Hood v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority

128 A.D.2d 431, 512 N.Y.S.2d 774, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 44137

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

DecidedMarch 12, 1987

StatusPublished

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Hood v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, 128 A.D.2d 431, 512 N.Y.S.2d 774, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 44137 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1987).

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Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alfred J. Callahan, J.), entered on January 7, 1986, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts and a new trial ordered solely on the issue of damages, without costs and without disbursements, unless plaintiffs Evelyn Hood and Leroy Hood, within 20 days after service upon their attorney of a copy of the order herein, with notice of entry, serve and file in the office of the clerk of the trial court a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict in their favor to $250,000 and $25,000, respectively, and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If plaintiffs so stipulate, the judgment, as so amended, is affirmed, without costs and without disbursements.

After review of the record, the damages appear to us to be excessive to the extent indicated. Concur—Sandler, J. P., Carro, Kassal, Ellerin and Wallach, JJ.

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Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alfred J. Callahan, J.), entered on January 7, 1986, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts and a new trial ordered solely on the issue of damages, without costs and without disbursements, unless plaintiffs Evelyn Hood and Leroy Hood, within 20 days after service upon their attorney of a copy of the order herein, with notice of entry, serve and file in the office of the clerk of the trial court a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict in their favor to $250,000 and $25,000, respectively, and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If plaintiffs so stipulate, the judgment, as so amended, is affirmed, without costs and without disbursements.

After review of the record, the damages appear to us to be excessive to the extent indicated. Concur—Sandler, J. P., Carro, Kassal, Ellerin and Wallach, JJ.

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128 A.D.2d 431, 512 N.Y.S.2d 774, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 44137, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/hood-v-manhattan-bronx-surface-transit-operating-authority-nyappdiv-1987.