Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly granted the defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law as the plaintiff failed to establish a prima facie case of res ipsa loquitur. The plaintiff failed to demonstrate either (1) that the accident was of a kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of someone's negligence, or (2) that it was caused by an instrumentality within the exclusive control of the defendant (
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