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Ellen McNally, Respondent, v. Oakwood, Appellant.
    (Argued March 4, 1925;
    decided March 31, 1925.)
    
      Negligence — injury from fall through unguarded trap door in floor of cemetery greenhouse.
    
    
      McNally v. Oakwood, 210 App. Div. 612, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment, entered November 17, 1924, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, which reversed an order of the court at a Trial Term setting aside a verdict in favor of plaintiff and granting a new trial and reinstated said verdict. The action was to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant in failing to guard a trap door in the floor of its greenhouse office. The defendant was a' cemetery corporation and maintained the greenhouse .in question. Plaintiff while in the office for the purpose of purchasing a plant fell through the opening and received the injuries complained of.
    
      Daniel Scanlon for appellant.
    
      A. Lee Olmsted for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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