Supreme Court of New Jersey July 17, 2018, A-88 September Term 2016; 079325 (McDaid v. Aztec W. Condo. Ass'n)

JUSTICE ALBIN delivered the opinion of the Court.

**135Res ipsa loquitur is an equitable doctrine that allows, in appropriate circumstances, a permissive inference of negligence to be drawn against a party who exercises exclusive control of an instrumentality that malfunctions and causes injury to another.