Over the objection of counsel for the plaintiff, the court stenographer was directed by the Trial Judge to go into the jury room and read a portion of the court's charge. This was error entitling plaintiff to a new trial.
The case is unlike Gundersen v. All America Commerce Corp. (275 App. Div. 572), where the only reply which was necessary to a communication from the jury was a simple "Yes...
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