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Garrett B. Clayton, as Administrator of the Estate of Taylor S. Clayton, Deceased, Respondent, v. Tottenville Shipyard Company, Appellant.
    (Argued June 22, 1927;
    decided July 20, 1927.)
    
      Negligence — master and servant — drowning of ship carpenter while working on float alongside vessel.
    
    
      Clayton v. Tottenville Shipyard Co., 219 App. Div. 742, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 2, 1927, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate through drowning alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of defendant, his employer. Intestate, a ship carpenter, was working on a float repairing a barge to which the float was fastened by ropes tied to ring bolts at its corners. After the passage of two tugs creating large swells it was observed that one of the ring bolts had pulled out permitting the float to drift from the barge and that intestate was in the water sinking.
    
      Burl L. Rich and James B. Henney for appellant.
    
      Joseph B. Handy and Esli L. Sutton for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ. Absent: Andrews, J.