In Taylor v. Blair, 116 AD2d 204, 500 N.Y.S.2d 133, the court was presented with a wrongful death action against the installer of a furnace. The claim was that the furnace was negligently installed resulting in the victim's death by carbon monoxide poisoning. The court held that it was improper to request the furnace company to admit the cause of death, even though such fact was readily ascertainable by a review of the death certificate or autopsy report.