Order reversed insofar as appealed from, with $50 costs and disbursements, and, upon reargument, motion for a general preference granted.
Where, as here, "the injuries, prima facie established by medical proof, might warrant a recovery in excess of" $10,000, the jurisdictional limitation of the Civil Court of the City of New York, it was an improvident exercise of discretion to deny a general preference (see Coletto v Keogh,
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