Rochester Refrigerating Corp. v. Easy Heat, Inc.

—Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: A portion of plaintiff s warehouse was destroyed by fire, which appears to have resulted from a short circuit of a heat cable installed by plaintiffs employee on a metal water pipe located inside the warehouse. Plaintiff commenced this action against, inter alia, Easy Heat, Inc., Bristol Corp., Herron Cable Industries, Ltd., and Wirekraft, Inc. (defendants), the manufac*1014turers of the heat cable and its component parts, asserting causes of action for negligence and strict…