23 A.D.2d 778 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1965
In two actions to recover, inter alla, damages for wrongful death (respectively designated “Action No. 1” and “Action No. 2), the parties appeal as follows: (1) Defendants Approved Sand & Gravel Corp. and Fehr Sand & Gravel, Inc., appeal from so much of two separate judgments of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, respectively entered April 2, 1964 and April 1, 1964 after a joint trial, upon a jury’s verdict, as awarded damages against them in favor of the plaintiff in each such action; and (2) the plaintiff in Action No. 2 appeals from so much of the judgment in said action as dismissed the complaint against the defendant Henry Wragge. On appeal by the plaintiff in Action No. 2: Judgment, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, without costs. On appeal by the defendants Approved Sand & Gravel Corp. and Fehr Sand & Gravel, Inc.: Judgments in Actions No. 1 and No. 2, insofar as appealed from, reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, and complaints dismissed, without costs. Plaintiffs’ respective intestates were killed on January 19, 1960 while driving at night, when their automobile (owned by