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Dora Silverman, Respondent, v. Hugh J. Sheeran, as Receiver of New York Railways Company, Appellant.
    (Argued May 19, 1927;
    decided June 7, 1927.)
    
      Negligence — railroads ■ — •streets ■ — injury to pedestrian, struck by street railway car at crossing.
    
    
      Silverman v. Sheeran, 218 App. Dir. 722, affirmed.
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 6, 1926, unanimously 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, while crossing University place at Eighth street in the borough of Manhattan, was struck by one of defendant’s cars and received the injuries complained of. The defense was contributory negligence.
    
      Ambrose Clogher and Henry J. Smith for appellant.
    
      Manley J. Greenwald for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.