Judgment entered in plaintiff's favor unanimously reversed on the law and in the exercise of discretion, and a new trial ordered, with costs to abide the event.
In the circumstances of this case, the post-verdict granting of plaintiff's motion to increase the ad damnum clause of the complaint was an improvident exercise of discretion. (See Natale v. Pepsi-Cola Co.,
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