Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1995

Oliver v. Donnelly

Oliver v. Donnelly
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 4, 1995
222 A.D.2d 423; 635 N.Y.S.2d 510; 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12570
Oliver v. Donnelly

Opinion of the Court

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rosenzweig, J.), entered July 19, 1993, which, upon a jury verdict in favor of the defendant, dismissed the complaint.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

There was no evidence adduced at trial that would support a *424finding that the defendant violated either Vehicle and Traffic Law § 375 (2) (a) or Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1180 (e). Thus, the trial court’s refusal to include those sections in the charge to the jury was proper (see, Hardy v Sicuranza, 133 AD2d 138; Gamar v Gamar, 114 AD2d 487; Wilmot v City of New York, 73 AD2d 201).

The jury’s determination that the defendant’s negligence was not a proximate cause of the automobile accident was supported by "a fair interpretation of the evidence” (Nicastro v Park, 113 AD2d 129, 134). Accordingly, the trial court properly denied the plaintiffs motion to set aside the verdict. Bracken, J. P., Sullivan, Rosenblatt and Hart, JJ., concur.

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