HINES v. CITY OF POUGHKEEPSIE


36 A.D.2d 830 (1971)

Joseph B. Hines, Jr., Respondent, v. City of Poughkeepsie et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 12, 1971


Order reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion denied.

In our opinion the amount in an ad damnum clause should bear some reasonable relationship to a verdict which a jury could return; and in this case we do not find such showing. In any event, under all the circumstances, it was an improvident exercise of discretion to grant plaintiff's motion on the...

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