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Mary Murtha, Respondent, v. Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company, Appellant.
    (Argued March 15, 1915;
    decided April 13, 1915.)
    
      Martha v. Central Park, N. efe E. R. R. R. Co., 154 App. Div. 937, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 6, 1913, 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 alleged that while she was lawfully walking upon Whitehall street, along which one of the defendant’s cars, propelled by horses, was passing, defendant’s employees were in the act of supplying water to the horses from a pail and one of them carelessly and negligently placed, pushed or threw the pail on the sidewalk or crossing from which plaintiff was passing at the time, directly in front of her, without any warning, “ thereby causing her to fall and violently throwing her to the ground. ”
    
      Chase Mellen and Charles E. Chalmers for appellant.
    
      Francis J. Hogan and Anthony J. Ernest for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Willard Bartlett, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Miller, Cardozo and Seabury, JJ.