Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The infant plaintiff, Mahomed Ramirez, was injured while playing on premises owned by the defendants when a stick thrown by his friend struck him in the left eye.
It is firmly established that "[a]n intervening act will be deemed a superseding cause and will serve to relieve [the] defendant of liability when the act is of such an extraordinary nature or so attenuates [the] defendant's negligence from the ultimate...
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