Reichman v. Brooklyn Truck Renting Corp.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Reichman v. Brooklyn Truck Renting Corp.

263 A.D. 1014, 33 N.Y.S.2d 929, 1942 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7897

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

DecidedMarch 23, 1942

StatusPublished

This text of 263 A.D. 1014 (Reichman v. Brooklyn Truck Renting Corp.) 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.

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Reichman v. Brooklyn Truck Renting Corp., 263 A.D. 1014, 33 N.Y.S.2d 929, 1942 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7897 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1942).

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Opinion

Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when he was struck by the corporate respondent’s truck. The appeal is by the plaintiff from a judgment, entered on the verdict of a jury in his favor, in the amount of $3,000, on the ground of inadequacy. Judgment reversed on the facts and a new trial granted, costs to abide the event, unless within ten days from the entry of the order hereon respond[1015]*1015ents stipulate to increase the amount of the verdict to 84,500, in which event the judgment as thus increased is unanimously affirmed, with costs. The amount of the verdict is inadequate compensation for the plaintiff’s injuries. On a new trial, if one be had, the plaintiff may show what his earnings were the last time he was employed before the accident, and that he was just as capable at the time of the accident. Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Close, JJ., concur.

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Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when he was struck by the corporate respondent’s truck. The appeal is by the plaintiff from a judgment, entered on the verdict of a jury in his favor, in the amount of $3,000, on the ground of inadequacy. Judgment reversed on the facts and a new trial granted, costs to abide the event, unless within ten days from the entry of the order hereon respond[1015]*1015ents stipulate to increase the amount of the verdict to 84,500, in which event the judgment as thus increased is unanimously affirmed, with costs. The amount of the verdict is inadequate compensation for the plaintiff’s injuries. On a new trial, if one be had, the plaintiff may show what his earnings were the last time he was employed before the accident, and that he was just as capable at the time of the accident. Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Close, JJ., concur.

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263 A.D. 1014, 33 N.Y.S.2d 929, 1942 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7897, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/reichman-v-brooklyn-truck-renting-corp-nyappdiv-1942.