Kristal Dodge Corp. v. Chrysler Motors Corp.

— In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract and a violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law article 17-A, the defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Spodek, J.), entered May 30, 1990, as denied that branch of its motion which was to strike the plaintiff’s demand for punitive damages under the fourth cause of action based on an alleged violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law article 17-A.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the defendant’s motion which was to strike the…