Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff's claim that it was deprived of a fair trial is without merit. "`A Trial Judge may "assume an active role in the examination of witnesses where proper or necessary * * * to facilitate or expedite the orderly progress of the trial"'" (Givens v Sinert,
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