Plaintiff claims that an issue of fact exists as to whether defendants' negligence caused the fire. It is argued that such issue is raised by evidence that the fire started in a back room of the store under defendants' exclusive control, that the individual defendant, the store's owner and manager, admittedly smoked a pack of cigarettes a day in the back room, and that the Suffolk County Police Department, which investigated the accident, reported that while the cause of...
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