Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
The findings of fact below are affirmed. It was error to admit into evidence a statement over the telephone to an insurance broker, allegedly made by a defendant who did not witness the accident, because the statement was a self-serving declaration which was hearsay and therefore was prejudicial to plaintiff (Johnson v. Lutz, 253 N.Y. 124; Williams v. Alexander,
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