Northern Cross Service Station, Inc. v. Arif

In an action to recover the balance due on promissory notes, the defendant Phil Lai appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (LaFauci, J.H.O.), dated December 21, 1993, as, after a nonjury trial, is in favor of the plaintiff and against him in the principal sum of $97,543.40.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

In October 1979, the plaintiff entered into an agreement with the defendants Rafat Arif and Inga Arif to sell his interest in a Mobil gas station for the price of $185,000. At the time the contract was signed, the…