Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.
To prove a prima facie case of negligence, the plaintiff must establish the existence of a duty on the defendant's part to the plaintiff, the breach of the duty, and that the breach of the duty was a proximate cause of an injury to the plaintiff (see, Akins v Glens Falls City School Dist.,
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