
    William Tangney, Appellant, v. City of New York, Respondent. City of New York, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. et al., Third-Party Defendants. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc., Fourth-Party Plaintiff, v. Sicilian Asphalt Paving Co., Fourth-Party Defendant.
    Argued January 16, 1974;
    decided February 20, 1974.
    
      
      Benjamin H. Siff, Herman D. Brand and Thomas R. Newman for appellant.
    
      Norman Redlich, Corporation Counsel (Beatrice Rothman and Stanley Buchsbaum of counsel), for respondent.
   Order affirmed, without costs, in the following memorandum: Our affirmance should not be construed as an approval of the abrupt curtailment of examination by plaintiff’s counsel and his proffers of proof.

Concur: Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Rabin and Stevens.  