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Flora Ullmann, Appellant, v. The Long Island Railroad Company, Respondent.
    
      Negligence — railroads — injury from fall at crossing — insufficiency of evidence to show negligence on part of railroad.
    
    
      Ullmann v. Long Island R. R. Co., 186 App. Div. 892, affirmed.
    (Submitted October 20, 1920;
    decided November 16, 1920.)
    Appeal from a judgment entered December 16, 1918, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and directing a dismissal of the complaint in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff while crossing defendant’s railroad at the Lincoln avenue crossing, Rockaway Beach, according to her testimony, caught her foot in a hole in the planking and fell receiving the injuries complained of. The Appellate Division directed a dismissal of the complaint on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to show negligence on the part of the defendant.
    
      Louis Boehm for appellant.
    
      Matthew J. Keany, Edward B. Newburne and Joseph F. Keany for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Chase, Hogan, Cardozo, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.