Opinion
April 22, 1968
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.