Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 18, 2003 (Trudeau v. Cooke)

Lahtinen, J.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Dawson, J.), entered February 24, 2003 in Clinton County, which, inter alia, granted defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs punitive damage claim.

After spending an evening patronizing a tavern in the Village of Ticonderoga, Essex County, plaintiff, James Fuller and defendant Jon A.