Purdie v. Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Purdie v. Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc.

88 A.D.2d 657, 450 N.Y.S.2d 771, 1982 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16886

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

DecidedMay 24, 1982

StatusPublished

This text of 88 A.D.2d 657 (Purdie v. Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Purdie v. Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc., 88 A.D.2d 657, 450 N.Y.S.2d 771, 1982 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16886 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1982).

Pincite

Opinion

— In a wrongful death action, defendant Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc. appeals, on the ground of excessiveness, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Held, J.), entered June 23,1981, as, after a jury trial, was in favor of plaintiff and against it in the principal sum of $5,000,000. Judgment reversed, insofar as appealed from, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and as between plaintiff and defendant Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc., action severed and new trial granted limited to the issue of damages only, unless, within 30 days after service upon plaintiff of a copy of the order to be made hereon, with notice of entry, plaintiff shall serve and file in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court, Kings County, a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict in her favor to $1,200,000, and to the entry of an amended judgment accordingly, in which event the judgment, as so reduced and amended, is affirmed, insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements. In our opinion, under all the circumstances, the amount of damages was excessive to the extent indicated. Gulotta, J. P., O’Connor, Thompson and Brown, JJ., concur.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

— In a wrongful death action, defendant Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc. appeals, on the ground of excessiveness, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Held, J.), entered June 23,1981, as, after a jury trial, was in favor of plaintiff and against it in the principal sum of $5,000,000. Judgment reversed, insofar as appealed from, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and as between plaintiff and defendant Continental Southeastern Lines, Inc., action severed and new trial granted limited to the issue of damages only, unless, within 30 days after service upon plaintiff of a copy of the order to be made hereon, with notice of entry, plaintiff shall serve and file in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court, Kings County, a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict in her favor to $1,200,000, and to the entry of an amended judgment accordingly, in which event the judgment, as so reduced and amended, is affirmed, insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements. In our opinion, under all the circumstances, the amount of damages was excessive to the extent indicated. Gulotta, J. P., O’Connor, Thompson and Brown, JJ., concur.

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)

88 A.D.2d 657, 450 N.Y.S.2d 771, 1982 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16886, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/purdie-v-continental-southeastern-lines-inc-nyappdiv-1982.