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Lena Masterson, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Floyd M. Masterson, Deceased, et al., Plaintiffs, v. P. & H. Harnischfeger Corporation et al., Defendants. Harnischfeger Corporation, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Liebherr (Ireland) Ltd., Third-Party Defendant, and J. A. Jones Construction Company, Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.
   Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered on January 6, 1972, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs and without disbursements, and the motion of third-party defendant-respondent to dismiss the cause of action stated against it by third-party plaintiff-appellant denied, and the cause reinstated. Special Term, deciding the motion before the decision in Dole v. Dow Chem. Co. (30 N Y 2d 143) relied, in dismissing, upon the active-passive negligence doctrine. A different evaluation of the third-party claim is now required. (See, also, Wood v. City of New York, 39 A D 2d 534; Frey v. Bethlehem, Steel Corp., 37 A D 2d 927, revd. 30 N Y 2d 764.) Concur — Stevens, P. J., MeGivern, Markewieh, Kupferman and Steuer, JJ.