285 A.D. 1204 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1955
Appeal by the defendant Schuek from a judgment entered against him in accordance with section 211-a of the Civil Practice Act for the sum of $2,500 and interest. The plaintiff Bell recovered a judgment of $50,000 in a negligence action against all the defendants, after a trial in the Supreme Court, Schoharie County. Subsequently the judgment was reduced by stipulation to the sum of $25,000. The cause of action arose out of an automobile accident, and at the time Schuek was driving his own car and the defendant Chamberlain was driving a ear owned by the defendant bank. After the judgment was reduced in amount, $10,000 was paid toward satisfaction thereof in behalf of the defendant Schuek and $15,000 in behalf of the defend