An Appellate Court ought to review liberally the discretion exercised by a Trial Judge with regard to the reasonableness of verdicts returned to him. Even if the Appellate Term Judges would not themselves have set the verdict aside for inadequacy had they acted in the first instance, this alone would not be sufficient to warrant their reversal of the order of the Civil Court. (Mann v. Hunt, 283 App. Div. 140, 141.) This court held, in Kligman v. City of New York...
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