Order and judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. The new trial shall be joint and bifurcated, with both actions tried jointly, and the issues of liability and damages tried separately.
The issues raised by this appeal are: (1) whether the trial court erred in jointly trying the issues of liability and damages in the first action with that of liability only in the second, so as to preclude a fair trial of the issue of liability...
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