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Benson v. Behrman

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 5, 1998
248 A.D.2d 153 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

Summary

upholding “restraining plaintiff's counsel from straying outside four corners of the evidence and offering his own speculation on summation”

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Opinion

March 5, 1998

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Friedman, J.).


In this personal injury action, the trial court properly allowed the use of a medical text to impeach the credibility of plaintiff's expert witness, who had previously acknowledged the text as authoritative (see, Spiegel v. Levy, 201 A.D.2d 378, lv denied 83 N.Y.2d 758; Hastings v. Chrysler Corp., 273 App. Div. 292, 294).

The court was also correct in restraining plaintiff's counsel from straying outside the four corners of the evidence and offering his own speculation on summation with respect to a plaster model of plaintiff's teeth made before, not after, the operation at issue (see, Johnston v. Colvin, 145 A.D.2d 846, 848).

Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Williams, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.


Summaries of

Benson v. Behrman

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 5, 1998
248 A.D.2d 153 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

upholding “restraining plaintiff's counsel from straying outside four corners of the evidence and offering his own speculation on summation”

Summary of this case from Selzer v. N.Y.C. Transit Auth.
Case details for

Benson v. Behrman

Case Details

Full title:LAURA BENSON, Appellant, v. STANLEY BEHRMAN, Respondent, et al., Defendant

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

Date published: Mar 5, 1998

Citations

248 A.D.2d 153 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
670 N.Y.S.2d 760

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