23 A.D.2d 960 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1965
Judgment and order insofar as appealed from unanimously modified in accordance with memorandum and as modified affirmed, with costs to plaintiffs-respondents. Memorandum: A general jury verdict in the amount of $30,654.15 was awarded plaintiffs for property damage and lost profits resulting from a fire caused by the claimed negligence of the defendants. We have no difficulty in affirming this verdict. Thereafter the plaintiffs moved to have interest computed on the verdict from the 1st day of March. 1958 (the date of the fire loss) pursuant to CPLR 5001 (subd. [a]). Special Term allowed interest from the 18th day of June, 1960 (the date of