105 N.Y.S. 1103 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1907
. The plaintiff, through its president, undertook to construct certain work for the purpose of installing an experimental gas works at the Flushing Gas Works, and the. principal question- involved is whether the defendant is-personally liable for the amount of the contract price of such work. The .'negotiations were had with Mr. Braker, the defendant, who was the treasurer of the International Sanitary Gas Company. A conflict of-evidence arose upon-the trial as to whether the contract was with Mr. Braker personally or with the International Sanitary Gas Company, Mr. Braker merely standing as a guarantor of the payment. This question was fully developed'by the evidence and was submitted to the jury, and that body has found i'n favor of the plaintiff, holding, in effect,, that the defendant ’ was primarily responsible. While it is true that the plaintiff made some damaging admissions on his cross-exáminations, it was proper for the jury to determine the truth from a.view of all the evidence. . .
Patterson, P. J., Ingraham, McLaughlin and Clarke," JJ., concurred.
' Judgment modified as directed' in opinion and as thus modified affirmed. Order denying motion for new trial affirmed, with costs. Order correcting verdict reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to appellant. ' Settle order on notice. ■
Upon a motion for a reargument:
In the preceding opinion it was inadvertently stated that the motion to correct the verdict was made at Special Term, when in fact the motion seems to have been made at the Trial Term at which the action was tried.. The order was reversed, not because of the particular court-that granted the motion, but because the verdict of the jury had been rendered .and received in- which they refused to obey the direction of the court and find for the full amount to which the plaintiff was'entitled, and the jury discharged before the motion to correct the verdict was made, ■ In such a case the rule allowing the court to correct the verdict where by mistake it was for the wrong amount is not applicable. The .plaintiff appears to have made-no motion to set aside the verdict and' for a new trial, and while as stated in the opinion the court could have directed the jury to correct their verdict before it. had been received and enforce such direction, 'the court could not, under the guise of correcting a verdict, substitute its verdict for that of the jury after the verdict had been received and the jury discharged. . .
The motion for a reargument should, be denied, with ten dollars costs. , "
Present — Patterson, P. J., Ingraham, McLaughlin,. Clarke and Lambert, JJ. . ' ’ .
Motion for reárgument denied, with ten.dollars costs.