Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1939

Bankers Trust Co. v. Harry Rosenwasser, Inc.

Bankers Trust Co. v. Harry Rosenwasser, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided May 1, 1939
257 A.D. 822; 11 N.Y.S.2d 823; 1939 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8039
Bankers Trust Co. v. Harry Rosenwasser, Inc.

Opinion of the Court

In an action brought to foreclose a mortgage, in *823which, the appellant mortgagor pleaded an agreement by the plaintiff to withhold foreclosure in consideration of an assignment of rents, resettled order granting plaintiff’s motion to strike out the answer of the appellant and for summary judgment affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. Under the agreement pleaded in the answer, the plaintiff promised to withhold its action for a period of one year only. It is not denied that the subsequent oral agreement to forbear for a further period was breached by defendant through failure to continue the monthly payments. Lazansky, P. J., Hagarty, Carswell, Adel and Close, JJ., concur.

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