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ZACHARY v. MACY & CO.

31 N.Y.2d 443 (1972)

Doris E. Zachary et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., Appellant-Respondent. (Action No. 1.) Doris E. Zachary et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Federated Department Stores, Inc., Appellant-Respondent. (Action No. 2.) Margaret J. Burman et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Federated Department Stores, Inc., Appellant-Respondent. (Action No. 3.) Doris E. Zachary et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Spartans Industries, Inc., Appellant-Respondent. (Action No. 4.) Lloyd Zachary et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Gimbel Brothers, Inc., Appellant-Respondent. (Action No. 5.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 28, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon V. Burman for respondents-appellants.

Ira M. Millstein, Carl D. Lobell, Joseph W. Gelb and Herbert M. Hellman for R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., appellant-respondent; Jacob Imberman, Michael A. Cardozo and Jeffrey C. Cohen for Federated Department Stores, Inc., appellant-respondent; Alvin M. Stein, Herbert L. Rosedale and Jordan M. Newman for Spartans Industries, Inc., appellant-respondent and Eugene H. Gordon and John C. Grosz for Gimbel Brothers, Inc., appellant-respondent.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Philip Weinberg, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, Joel H. Sachs and Paul S. Shemin of counsel), for State of New York, amicus curiae.

Arthur H. Dean, Edward W. Keane, Thomas R. Mulroy, John L. Conlon, Richard Bromley, William E. Jackson, Isaac Shapiro and Norman R. Nelson for New York State Council of Retail Merchants and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, BREITEL and GIBSON concur with Judge SCILEPPI; Judge BERGAN dissents in part and on defendants' appeal votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Judge JASEN concurs.

SCILEPPI, J.

In five consolidated actions, each asserting individual and representative causes of action for injunctive and declaratory relief as well as an accounting and recovery of damages pursuant to section 414 (subd. 2) of the Personal Property Law, plaintiffs, who maintain charge accounts with various department stores on a revolving-credit or open-end basis, complain that defendants' method of computing...

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