Order and judgment reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion denied, without costs, and without prejudice to renewal of the motion upon proper papers.
The order of the Special Term appears to have been based on a finding that, pursuant to an agreement between respondent and the United States, respondent was the general agent of the United States and could not be held liable under the Jones Act. (See Cosmopolitan Co. v. McAllister,
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