McCormack v. Lynn Imports, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Joseph Goldstein, J.

“Things are seldom what they seem,

“Skim milk masquerades as cream;

“Highlows pass as leathers;

“Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers.”

(H.M.S. Pinafore.)

Gilbert and Sullivan put it to music, but all too often the purchaser of a used automobile has little to sing about and often much to cry about. While certainly there are used car dealers who are reputable and stand behind the product they offer to the public, there are others about whom the court wonders, invoking the well-used rhetorical inquiry which begins, “Would you buy a used car from this person?”

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