
    Public Administrator of the County of New York, as Administrator of the Estate of Lam Kwei Shi, Deceased, Respondent, v City of New York et al., Appellants.
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bookson, J.), entered on August 19, 1980, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, the motion to set aside the verdict granted, and a new trial ordered on the issue of damages only, without costs and without disbursements, unless plaintiff, within 20 days after service upon him of a copy of the order herein, with notice of entry, serves and files in the office of the clerk of the trial court a written stipulation consenting to reduce the verdict in his favor to $90,000 and to the entry of an amended judgment in accordance therewith. If plaintiff so stipulates, the judgment, as so amended and reduced, is affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. After review of the record, the damages appear to us to be excessive to the extent indicated. Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Markewich, Bloom and Fein, JJ.  