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Samuel Redwitz, Respondent, v. New York Central Railroad Company, Appellant.
    
      Redwitz v. N. Y. Central R. R. Co., 183 App. Div. 919, affirmed.
    (Argued March 11, 1920;
    decided April 13, 1920.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered March 23, 1918, 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 while employed as a laborer in one of defendant’s construction gangs was injured by reason of a collision of a freight train with a handcar on which he with others was riding. The defense interposed by the defendant was a general denial of the allegations of negligence on its part, an allegation that the plaintiff was contributorily negligent and further an allegation of a release by the plaintiff.
    
      Francis E. Cullen for appellant.
    
      N. F. Breen for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ.