What is the test for supervising the reasonableness of the verdicts returned to the judge on appeal?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Russo v. Levat, 998 N.Y.S.2d 308 (Table) (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2014):
The duty of the judge to supervise the reasonableness of the verdicts returned to him ought to be viewed liberally on appeal because the independence of mind with which that duty is exercised is ingredient to the sound health of the judicial process. (Lipshitz v. Sloan, 280 App. Div. 855, 113 N.Y.S.2d 333.)
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