Plaintiff was injured when, while stepping on a manhole cover, the cover flipped open causing plaintiff to fall into the hole; plaintiff also felt "something hot" emanate from the opened hole. Defendants did not own or operate the subject manhole cover, which capped a chute through which coal was delivered into a basement storage room in the early days of a school.
Defendants' motion should have been granted, as the evidence
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