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Heyer v. City of New York

109 A.D.2d 662 Court N.Y. App. Div. Decision date 1985-03-19 English

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Robert W. Heyer et al., Respondents, v City of New York et al., Appellants.

— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Wallace R. Cotton, J.), entered on November 9, 1983, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial ordered solely on the issue of damages, without costs and without disbursements, unless plaintiffs, within 20 days after service of a copy of the order to be entered herein upon their attorney, with notice of entry, serve and file in the office of the clerk of the trial court a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict in their favor to $850,000 and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If the plaintiffs so stipulate, the judgment, as so amended and reduced, is affirmed, without costs and without disbursements.

After review of the record, the damages appear to us to be excessive to the extent indicated. Concur — Kupferman, J. P., Sandler, Sullivan and Fein, JJ.