Judgment reversed, insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs and new trial granted limited to the issue of damages only.
In our opinion, the Trial Judge committed reversible error when, upon instructing the jury on the issue of damages, he stated: "Now that figure of money placed in the wherefore clause of a complaint has no evidentiary value whatsoever. You might say the
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