Stone v. Hotel Roosevelt Corporation

Full title: TOBIAS STONE, Respondent, v. HOTEL ROOSEVELT CORPORATION, Appellant

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jan 27, 1959

7 A.D.2d 843 (N.Y. App. Div. 1959)

Opinion

January 27, 1959

Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, and a new trial ordered on the grounds of excessiveness of both the compensatory and punitive damages, with costs to abide the event, unless plaintiff stipulates to accept $1,500 as compensatory damages and $2,500 as punitive damages, in which event the judgment as so modified, is affirmed, with costs to the appellant. Settle order on notice.

Concur — Botein, P.J., Breitel, Rabin, Valente and Bergan, JJ.