Appeal from a judgment of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Richmond County (Catherine M. DiDomenico, J.), entered January 24, 2005. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $2,505.

Judgment affirmed without costs.

Plaintiff brought the instant small claims action based upon defendant's sale to him in 2004 of an allegedly defective 1996 Oldsmobile. Following trial, the court awarded plaintiff the sum of $2,505 upon a finding that the automobile sold to him by defendant never worked in a proper fashion.

A review of the record indicates that substantial justice was done between the parties in accordance with the rules and principles of substantive law (CCA 1807). The deference which an appellate court normally accords to a trial court's credibility determinations "applies with greater force to judgments rendered in the Small Claims Part" (Williams v Roper, 269 AD2d 125, 126 [2000]). Moreover, a small claims judgment may not be reversed absent a showing that there is no support in the record for the court's conclusions, or that the court's determination is otherwise so clearly erroneous as to deny substantial justice (see Forte v Bielecki 118 AD2d 620 [1986]; see also Blair v Five Points Shopping Plaza, 51 AD2d 167 [1976]).

Pesce, P.J., Golia and Rios, JJ., concur.
Decision Date: February 14, 2006