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Henry J. McBride, Respondent, v. Lewis C. Hopkins Company, Appellant.
    (Submitted June 10, 1925;
    decided July 15, 1925.)
    
      Negligence — animals — action to recover for injury from bite of horse.
    
    
      McBride v. Hopkins Co., 213 App. Div. 855, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 5, 1925, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant in harboring a vicious horse. The complaint alleged and there was testimony to show that while plaintiff was engaged in his work on a pier in New York city he .was bitten on the cheek by a horse belonging to defendant and that the same horse had previously snapped at another man on the same pier.
    
      Clarence S. Zipp, Joseph F. O’Brien and E. C. Sherwood for appellant.
    
      Julian J. Raphael and Samuel R. Robinson for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: Pound., J.