The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff was severely injured on June 15, 1973 when he jumped out of a window of his sixth story apartment to escape a fire which he had caused by placing a recently used gasoline tank, with the top removed, near the pilot light on a stove. When the pilot light's flame ignited a residue which had apparently remained in the tank, plaintiff...
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