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Anthony Bellotti, Respondent, v. Huron Stevedoring Corporation, Appellant.
    
      Negligence — ships and shipping — longshoreman injured from falling down hatchway while loading vessel.
    
    
      Bellotti v. Huron Stevedoring Corp., 218 App. Div. 867, affirmed.
    (Argued December 2, 1926;
    decided December 31, 1926.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 2, 1926, 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, his employer. Plaintiff, a longshoreman engaged in loading a vessel, was injured by falling through a hatchway while proceeding in the dark along one of the decks, by direction of his foreman, to procure a tool required in the performance of his work. There was evidence that the foreman had told plaintiff that the hatches were closed.
    
      Don R. Almy for appellant.
    
      Harold R. Medina, David M. Fink and Jacquin Frank for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.