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32 Misc. 707

Meyer v. Riordan

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · decided 1900-06-15

<p>Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the City Court of the city of New York, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1933

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Decided 1900-06-15

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Per Curiam.

¶1An exception taken to an instruction is made the basis of this appeal.

¶2The exception was duly taken and suffices to raise the question presented.

¶3The vital issue was as to an employment; upon it the evidence was conflicting and very close. In answer to an inquiry made by the jury after it had retired, the court misinformed it as to the evidence, and as it cannot'he said that the misinformation did not prejudice the defendant, the judgment is reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

¶4Present: Truax, P. J., Scott and Dugro, JJ.

¶5Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event.

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