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p. 506Irwin Kallman, Appellant, v. Wolf Corporation et al., Respondents.
Order vacating the judgment herein entered July 9, 1964 unanimously affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements to respondents. Tfie assessment
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of punitive damages is an incident of damages which requires proof of a cause of action; punitive damage does not constitute a separate cause of action. (Gill v. Montgomery Ward é Co., 284 App. Div. 36 , 41.) The vacatur of the California judgment removed the basis for the judgment herein because the complaint is grounded solely on the California judgment.
Concur — McNally, J. P., Stevens, Eager, Steuer and Witmer, JJ.