
    Hugo Knopp, Respondent, v. Constantine Porreca, Appellant-Respondent, and Roman Landscape Contracting Company, Inc., Appellant, et al., Defendant.
   Judgment unanimously reversed on the ground of excessiveness of verdict and a new trial ordered, with costs to abide the event, unless the plaintiff stipulates to reduce the verdict to the sum of $45,000 in which event, the judgment, as so modified is affirmed, without costs. Settle order on notice. Concur — Breitel, J. P., Rabin, Frank, Valente and McNally, JJ.  