Bradley v. Howard Hembrough Volkswagen, Inc.

This action was brought to recover actual and punitive damages occasioned by a violation by the defendant of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act of 1972. (15 U.S.C. §1981 et seq. (1976).) The clear congressional intention in the enactment of that statute was to impose sanctions, actual and punitive damages, upon those who violate the statute. Selling a car indicating that it has less mileage than it in fact has is a violation. Intent is an element.

In this case, there is no doubt that a car was sold, that the mileage was indicated to be some 6,000 miles when in fact the…