WALKER v. SHELDON


10 N.Y.2d 401 (1961)

Claudia Walker, Respondent, v. Milton U. Sheldon et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 7, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester Samuels, Murray C. Spett and Robert J. Cahn for Milton U. Sheldon, appellant.

Murray Levine for Samuel F. Chernoble and others, appellants.

Irwin Karp for respondent.

Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE and BURKE concur with Judge FULD; Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents in an opinion in which Judges FROESSEL and FOSTER concur.


FULD, J.

This appeal, here by permission of the Appellate Division on a certified question, calls upon us to decide whether punitive damages may be allowed in a fraud and deceit action.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was induced to enter into a contract with the defendant Comet Press and pay it $1,380 by means of a number of false and fraudulent representations made by the individual defendants...

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