Berg-Bakis Ltd. v. City of Yonkers

In an action to recover damages for, inter alia, abuse of process, the parties cross-appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Edelstein, J.), entered August 13, 1981, which, after a jury trial, awarded plaintiffs compensatory damages in the principal amount of $1,000 and punitive damages in the principal amount of $10,000 payable by the defendant city and $1,000 payable by each of the individual defendants. Judgment modified, on the law, by deleting the provision awarding punitive damages against the defendant municipality and substituting a provision dismissing the…