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AGUI v. FERNANDEZ, 113 A.D.3d 645 (2014)

Court: Supreme Court of New York Number: innyco20140115316 Visitors: 24
Filed: Jan. 15, 2014
Latest Update: Jan. 15, 2014
Summary: In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schack, J.), dated June 15, 2012, which granted that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a) to set aside a jury verdict in favor of them and against the plaintiff on the issue of liability as contrary to the weight of the evidence and for a new trial. Prior Case History: 35 Misc.3d 1244(A), 2012 NY Slip Op 51090(U). Ordered that the order
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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schack, J.), dated June 15, 2012, which granted that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a) to set aside a jury verdict in favor of them and against the plaintiff on the issue of liability as contrary to the weight of the evidence and for a new trial.

Prior Case History: 35 Misc.3d 1244(A), 2012 NY Slip Op 51090(U).

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts, with costs, that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a) to set aside the verdict as contrary to the weight of the evidence and for a new trial is denied, the verdict is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for entry of a judgment in accordance with the verdict.

A jury verdict should not be set aside as contrary to the weight of the evidence unless the evidence so preponderates in favor of the moving party that the jury could not have reached its verdict by any fair interpretation of the evidence (see Lolik v Big V Supermarkets, 86 N.Y.2d 744, 746 [1995]; Adetimirin v Howland Hook Hous. Co., Inc., 92 A.D.3d 814 [2012]; Nicastro v Park, 113 A.D.2d 129, 133-134 [1985]). Here, it was a fair interpretation of the evidence for the jury to have found that the plaintiff, a pedestrian, was not in the crosswalk when the defendant driver started making his turn, and that the defendant driver could not see the plaintiff (see Seong Yim Kim v New York City Tr. Auth., 87 A.D.3d 531, 533 [2011]; Collazo v Metropolitan Suburban Bus Auth., 68 A.D.3d 803, 804 [2009]). Accordingly, the Supreme Court should not have set aside the jury's verdict in favor of the defendants.

Source:  Leagle

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