Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1978

De Leon v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.

De Leon v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 5, 1978
66 A.D.2d 665; 411 N.Y.S.2d 190; 1978 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13925
De Leon v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.

Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered April 7, 1977, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs or *666disbursements, and a new trial ordered on the issue of damages only unless plaintiff-respondent shall, within 20 days after service upon him of a copy of the order entered hereon, serve and file in the office of the clerk of Trial Term, Bronx County, a written stipulation to reduce the verdict upon all three causes of action to the sum of $63,000 in toto, and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If plaintiff-respondent shall so stipulate, the judgment as so amended is affirmed, without costs or disbursements. We deem the verdict as rendered excessive to the extent indicated. Further, a specific award for "character and habits” is unauthorized in any amount. Concur—Lupiano, J. P., Evans, Markewich, Yesawich and Sullivan, JJ.

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