Tobet v. New York City Transit Authority

OPINION OF THE COURT

Louis B. York, J.

In mid-October of 1986, claimant found 54 tokens when he replaced his summer clothing with his fall wardrobe. These tokens had cost him 90 cents each and were obsolete as the defendant Transit Authority had replaced them with the current $1 token. The claimant contacted the defendant several times, offering to exchange an old token plus 10 cents for each new one. After being refused, claimant brought this small claims action seeking to recover the monetary value of his unexchanged tokens. Since the commencement of this suit, claimant has found several more…