CRK Contracting of Suffolk, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance

—In an action to recover upon a labor and material payment bond, the plaintiff appeals from "a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Golden, J.), entered August 20, 1997, *530which, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the defendant and against it dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiffs claim that it was deprived of a fair trial is without merit. “ ‘A Trial Judge may “assume an active role in the examination of witnesses where proper or necessary * * * to facilitate or expedite the orderly progress of the trial” ’ ” (Givens v Sinert, 243…