Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The trial court properly refused to submit this case to the jury based upon the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. The plaintiffs failed to establish that the event was of a kind that ordinarily does not occur in the absence of someone's negligence and that it was not caused by any voluntary action or contribution on the part of the injured plaintiff (see, Ebanks v New York City Tr. Auth.,
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