On the record before us, we find the verdict excessive. Accordingly, the judgment is unanimously reversed on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with costs to defendants-appellants to abide the event, and a new trial ordered unless plaintiff-respondent stipulates to reduce the verdict to the sum of $23,000, in which event the judgment as so modified is affirmed, without costs to either side.
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