Skolowec v. Central Carpet Cleaning Co.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Skolowec v. Central Carpet Cleaning Co.

100 A.D.2d 777, 473 N.Y.S.2d 1018, 1984 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 17875

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

DecidedApril 10, 1984

StatusPublished

This text of 100 A.D.2d 777 (Skolowec v. Central Carpet Cleaning Co.) 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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Skolowec v. Central Carpet Cleaning Co., 100 A.D.2d 777, 473 N.Y.S.2d 1018, 1984 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 17875 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1984).

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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Evans, J.), entered on August 2,1983, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial ordered solely on the issue of damages awarded to the plaintiff-respondent, without costs, unless plaintiff-respondent, within 20 days after service upon his attorney 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 $225,000, less 10%, the percentage by which the jury found plaintiff to be contributorily negligent, and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If plaintiff-respondent so stipulates, the judgment, as so amended and reduced, is affirmed without costs and without disbursements. 1! After review of the record, the damages awarded appear to us to be excessive to the extent indicated. Concur — Murphy, P. J., Kupferman, Sandler, Ross and Silverman, JJ.

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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Evans, J.), entered on August 2,1983, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial ordered solely on the issue of damages awarded to the plaintiff-respondent, without costs, unless plaintiff-respondent, within 20 days after service upon his attorney 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 $225,000, less 10%, the percentage by which the jury found plaintiff to be contributorily negligent, and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If plaintiff-respondent so stipulates, the judgment, as so amended and reduced, is affirmed without costs and without disbursements. 1! After review of the record, the damages awarded appear to us to be excessive to the extent indicated. Concur — Murphy, P. J., Kupferman, Sandler, Ross and Silverman, JJ.

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100 A.D.2d 777, 473 N.Y.S.2d 1018, 1984 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 17875, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/skolowec-v-central-carpet-cleaning-co-nyappdiv-1984.