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201 A.D. 559

Golden v. Weinstein

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1922-06-02

Appeal by the defendant, Abraham Weinstein, from a judgment of the City Court of the City of New York in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 19th day of May, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

Relies on Page v. . Krekey · Capron v. . Douglass

Decided 1922-06-02

Smith, J.:

¶1The action was an action for indecent assault. The plaintiff swore to the assault and was corroborated by a witness who was a co-employee. The defendant produced different witnesses who swore that they were around the building and could have heard the *560outcries which the plaintiff claims to have made, if the assault had been committed and those outcries had been made, and that they heard nothing. After the defendant had sworn five witnesses, the court refused to allow him to swear any more witnesses to these facts, on the ground that such evidence was cumulative. That this was error is held in Page v. Krekey (137 N. Y. 307); Ward v. Washington Ins. Co. (6 Bosw. 229); Capron v. Douglass (193 N. Y. 11); Hauptman v. New York Edison Co. (160 App. Div. 917).

¶2The determination of the Appellate Term and the judgment of the City Court and the order should be reversed, and a new trial granted, with costs in all courts to appellant to abide the event.

¶3Clarke, P. J., Laiighlin, Dowling and Greenbaum, JJ., concur.

¶4Determination appealed from and judgment of the City Court reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant in all courts to abide the event.

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