Time Motor Sales, Inc. v. Property Clerk of the Police Department

OPINION OF THE COURT

Harold Baer, Jr., J.

The plaintiff moves for an order declaring plaintiff the owner of three motor vehicles seized by the New York City Police Department (Department) in connection with a criminal investigation and subsequent prosecution, coupled with a direction that the defendants return the vehicles to plaintiff.

Plaintiff alleges that it purchased three motor vehicles between July and October, 1978 from other New York State registered automobile dealers, and that it sold these vehicles to three different bona fide customers in the ordinary course of its business. Early…