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Michael Kilgallon, Respondent, v. The Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd., Appellant.
    (Argued May 14, 1925;
    decided June 2, 1925.
    
      Negligence — master and servant — longshoreman injured by falling skid or fender.
    
    
      Kilgallon v. Cunard 8. 8. Co., Ltd., 212 App. Div. 825, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 13, 1925, unanimously affirming 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, while employed in the hold of one of defendant’s steamers was struck by a falling skid or fendér which had been hung to protect the woodwork around the hatch about twenty- three feet above the hold.
    
      Thaddeus G. Cowell for appellant.
    
      James A. Gray and William S. Butler for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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