Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1936

Cohen v. Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corp.

Cohen v. Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided February 14, 1936
246 A.D. 276; 285 N.Y.S. 485; 1936 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9484

Counsel

Lawrence H. Levinson of counsel [Herman Koenigsberg, attorney], for the appellant., Benjamin Eisler of counsel [Harold Olian with him on the brief; George D. Yeomans, attorney], for the respondent.

Cohen v. Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corp.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The learned trial court erroneously entertained a motion made under the same circumstances as those set out in Dougherty v. Salt (227 N. Y. 200, decided in 1919). Although the motion to dismiss should not have been heard at the time when *277it was made, nevertheless a just result was reached in spite of the error, since in our view there was no evidence to justify the verdict. An appellate court under these circumstances now has power to affirm the final judgment. (N. Y. Const. art. 6, § 8, in effect Jan. 1, 1926, and Civil Practice Act, § 584, as amd. by Laws of 1926, chap. 215, April 2, 1926.)

The determination of the Appellate Term should be affirmed, with costs.

Present ■— Martin, P. J., McAvoy, O’Malley, Townley and Glennon, JJ.

Determination affirmed, with costs and disbursements.

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