Opinion
June 6, 1974
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered on January 18, 1974, unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, and vacated, and a new trial granted solely on the issue of damages, with $60 costs and disbursements of this appeal to abide the event, unless the plaintiff-respondent within twenty days of service upon her by the defendants-appellants of a copy of the order entered hereon, with notice of entry, serves and files in the office of the clerk of the trial court a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict to $12,000 and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If the plaintiff-respondent consents to the reduction, the judgment as so amended and reduced is affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. The amount awarded by the jury was excessive and a judgment exceeding the amount indicated is not warranted on this record.
Concur — Nunez, J.P., Kupferman, Murphy, Lupiano and Tilzer, JJ.