Cohen v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, entered March 3, 1976, after a jury trial which, inter alia, awarded plaintiffs punitive damages in the total amount of $50,000, reversed, on the law, insofar as appealed from, to the extent of deleting the awards for punitive damages. Appellant shall recover of respondents $60 costs and disbursements of this appeal. Ken Heyman, a professional photographer, had used Scarlet Cohen and her infant daughter as models and had taken photographs of them in October, 1966 for commercial use. In 1971, Hallmark Cards, Inc., purchased photographs of the…