Order reversed, on the law and the facts, with $10 costs and disbursements, and trial preference granted.
In our opinion, the fact that plaintiff received public assistance from the Nassau County Department of Public Welfare prior to his accident, and the fact that there is no causal relationship between his welfare status and his accident, should not, in and of themselves, deprive him of a trial preference based on indigency. To require that there be a causal connection...
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