Almost four years ago, a local property owner asked me to appeal a $305,000 judgment entered against him after a bench trial. Knowing the deference the Appellate Division affords to judges in nonjury trials, I agreed to take a look at the judge’s opinion, to see if we had a basis to appeal.
The opinion was 69 pages long. It was also appallingly bad. Not only were there factual errors on almost every page—indeed, the opinion contradicted itself numerous times—but the opinion “found” events which had simply never taken place.
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