New Canaan Foreign Car Service, Inc. v. Blohm

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

New Canaan Foreign Car Service, Inc. v. Blohm

85 A.D.2d 509, 444 N.Y.S.2d 104, 1981 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16279

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedDecember 1, 1981

StatusPublished

This text of 85 A.D.2d 509 (New Canaan Foreign Car Service, Inc. v. Blohm) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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New Canaan Foreign Car Service, Inc. v. Blohm, 85 A.D.2d 509, 444 N.Y.S.2d 104, 1981 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16279 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1981).

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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (E. W. Pine, J.), entered June 19, 1980, is unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to the extent of striking so much thereof as awards to plaintiff any punitive damages as against defendants-appellants Carib Autos, Inc., and Trans Atlantic Trading, Ltd., and the decretal portion of the judgment is modified by deleting therefrom the words [510]*510“and $25,000 in punitive damages,” and the judgment, so far as appealed from, is otherwise affirmed, without costs. The conduct charged against defendants-appellants appears to be “an isolated transaction incident to an otherwise legitimate business” rather than “a gross and wanton fraud upon the public.” (Walker v Sheldon, 10 NY2d 401, 406.) Accordingly, punitive damages are not warranted (see, also, Garrity v Lyle Stuart, Inc., 40 NY2d 354, 358). Concur — Kupferman, J. P., Birns, Ross, Lupiano and Silverman, JJ.

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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (E. W. Pine, J.), entered June 19, 1980, is unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to the extent of striking so much thereof as awards to plaintiff any punitive damages as against defendants-appellants Carib Autos, Inc., and Trans Atlantic Trading, Ltd., and the decretal portion of the judgment is modified by deleting therefrom the words [510]*510“and $25,000 in punitive damages,” and the judgment, so far as appealed from, is otherwise affirmed, without costs. The conduct charged against defendants-appellants appears to be “an isolated transaction incident to an otherwise legitimate business” rather than “a gross and wanton fraud upon the public.” (Walker v Sheldon, 10 NY2d 401, 406.) Accordingly, punitive damages are not warranted (see, also, Garrity v Lyle Stuart, Inc., 40 NY2d 354, 358). Concur — Kupferman, J. P., Birns, Ross, Lupiano and Silverman, JJ.

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85 A.D.2d 509, 444 N.Y.S.2d 104, 1981 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16279, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/new-canaan-foreign-car-service-inc-v-blohm-nyappdiv-1981.

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