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Ernest Jobman, Respondent, v. T. Hogan & Sons, Inc., Appellant.
    (Argued June 8, 1926;
    decided July 9, 1926.)
    Negligence— action, to recover for injury to workman on steamer through swinging of hatch beam while being hoisted.
    
    
      Jobman v. Hogan & Sons, Inc., 216 App. Div. 736, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 3, 1926, 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. Plaintiff was employed in overseeing carpenter work on board a steamship. Defendant was a stevedore company. Its workmen were uncovering the hatches, in the course of which they used an up and down fall to remove the hatch beams. In lifting one of these large beams by the fall, it swung around and struck the door of a companionway, justas the plaintiff was about to pass through, slamming the door closed and catching his foot in the door, causing the injury complained of.
    Judgment affirmed, with costs;
    
      Eli J. Blair for appellant.
    
      Theodore H. Lord for respondent.
   no opinion.

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