Voerg Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. v. Melton

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review respondent’s determination suspending petitioner’s dealer registration for five days. Petitioner is a domestic corporation engaged in the retail sale of automobiles pursuant to a registration issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles. In November, 1972 one Stephen Craft purchased a 1969 Pontiac automobile from petitioner. When the vehicle was delivered, the odometer reading was 29,464 miles. Mr. Craft drove the car for two years and though…