Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with one bill of costs.
It is well settled that for a court to conclude that a jury verdict is unsupported by sufficient evidence as a matter of law, there must be "no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences which could possibly lead rational [people] to the conclusion reached by the jury on the basis of the evidence presented at trial" (Cohen v Hallmark Cards,
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