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STAR CREDIT CORP. v. INGRAM

75 Misc.2d 299 (1973)

Star Credit Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Dazell Ingram et al., Defendants.

Civil Court of the City of New York, Trial Term, New York County.

July 3, 1973

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander (Thomas J. Griffin, Jr., and John J. Witmeyer, III, of counsel), for Dazell Ingram and others, defendants.

SHANLEY N. EGETH, J.

In Walker v. Sheldon (10 N.Y.2d 401), the Court of Appeals established the rule of law, now well accepted in New York, that punitive damages may be assessed as a deterrent to fraudulent consumer sales. It extended the availability of punitive damages from cases of wanton and malicious fraud directed at a specific individual (Toomey v. Farley, 2 N.Y.2d 71

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