Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
After the liability phase of the trial, the jury found that although the defendant was negligent, that negligence was not the proximate cause of the collision, and returned a verdict in his favor.
A Trial Judge should not set aside a verdict in favor of a defendant unless the jury could not have reached its verdict on any fair interpretation of the evidence (see, Rice v Massalone,
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