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Mary Walker, Respondent, v. Realty Managers, Inc., Appellant, Impleaded with Others.
    (Argued June 15; 1927;
    decided July 20, 1927.)
    
      Negligence — building — failure to erect shed over sidewalk extending to curb —■ liability of owner for injury to pedestrian struck by board falling from building.
    
    
      Walker v. Realty Managers, Inc., 218 App. Div. 829, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 28, 1926, 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 to the northeast comer of Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street in the borough of Manhattan was struck on the head by a piece of board which fell from a building under construction at that comer and received the injuries complained of. The owner of the building was held liable for failure to erect a shed extending from the building line to the curb over the sidewalk adjacent to the building.
    
      George F. Hickey, Henry L. Ughetta and William Butler for appellant.
    
      James G. Purdy for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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