Plaintiff was injured on July 16, 1969 as a result of an accident allegedly occasioned by defendant's negligence. In January, 1977, on the eve of trial, plaintiff moved to increase the ad damnum clause from $200,000 to $1,000,000 upon the claim, "on the basis of newly discovered facts", that he suffered a psychiatric disability. The motion was supported solely by an affidavit of plaintiff's daughter and a letter from a psychiatrist who had examined plaintiff just before...
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