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p. 987Salvatore P. Rizzo et al., Respondents, v. Edward D. Groeber et al., Appellants.
Order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated October 10, 1967, reversed, without costs, and preference vacated, without prejudice to a further application for a preference, if plaintiffs be so advised. The grant of a preference in trial must be vacated in the absence of a stenographic transcript of the pretrial hearing or other appropriate record showing a factual basis therefor (Jones V. Otis Elevator Co., 24 A D 2d 451 ; Abramson v. Kenwood Labs., 17 A D 2d 626 , 627). Rabin, Acting P. J., Hopkins, Benjamin, Munder and Martuscello, JJ., concur.