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Jacob Kapossky, Respondent, v. William T. Berry, et al., Individually and as Copartners under the Firm Name of Industrial Surgical Clinic, Appellants, Impleaded with Others.
    (Argued June 12, 1925;
    decided July 15, 1925.)
    
      Malpractice •— physicians and surgeons — negligence — action to recover for injury arising through alleged malpractice and negligence of nurse at surgical clinic.
    
    
      Kapossky v. Berry, 212 App. Div. 833, affirmed.
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered- January 31, 1925, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for alleged malpractice. Plaintiff had been injured by having a heavy bag of sugar fall upon his shoulder, temporarily paralyzing his arm and was sent to defendant’s for treatment. His arm was there placed in a baking oven and left so long that it became burned, from which it was claimed an ulcer developed causing permanent injury to the arm.
    
      Theodore H. Lord and James B. Henney for appellants.
    
      Harold L. Warner and Thomas A. O’Connor for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: Pound, J.