The adverse inference adopted by the trial court was an appropriate sanction for the loss or destruction of building maintenance records for the relevant time period. The trial court assumed that "plaintiff did not maintain the premises in the manner it was legally obligated to do." However, this did not absolve defendants from their burden of proving the other elements of their constructive eviction defense/counterclaim— namely, that plaintiff's failure to maintain...
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