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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George F. Gross, an Infant, by John F. Gross, His Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Erie Railroad Company, Respondent.
    (Submitted October 5, 1917;
    decided October 16, 1917.)
    
      Gross v. Erie R. R. Co., 177 App. Div. 901, appeal dismissed.
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 21, 1917, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion made by the plaintiff for an order substituting Emma Gross as guardian ad litem for the plaintiff and vacating and setting aside the judgment entered in the above action on the 31st day of October, 1907, on an offer and acceptance for $100, and vacating and setting aside the satisfaction thereof, filed January 16, 1908, and amending the complaint in said action, and substituting Edward J. McCrossin as attorney for the plaintiff in the place and stead of John F. Halstead upon the ground that the plaintiff has a meritorious cause of action against the defendant, that his rights were not properly protected and that the settlement was made by the guardian ad litem without authority.
    
      Thomas Downs and Edward J. McCrossin for appellant.
    
      Philip A. Rorty for respondent.
   Appeal dismissed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Chase, Cuddeback, Hogan, Pound, McLaughlin and Andrews, JJ.