Judgment unanimously affirmed with costs.
Memorandum:
Supreme Court properly granted plaintiff's motion to set aside the verdict on liability, directed a verdict in plaintiff's favor on the issue of proximate cause and ordered a new trial on damages. The proof established that plaintiff's leg was cut by an X-Acto knife that protruded from defendant's backpack. Defendant testified that, when he placed the X-Acto knife in an outer compartment of his backpack...
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