Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Where a deliberating jury requests information but indicates, before the court is able to respond to the request, that it has reached a verdict, the court should ordinarily ascertain from the jurors, before accepting the verdict, that they no longer require the information they had requested (see Fagiola v Jonassen,
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