Societe Financiers de Banque v. Bitter-Larkin

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered February 26, 1997, which granted plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment upon a promissory note to the extent of awarding plaintiff the principal sum of $300,000, and dismissed defendant’s counterclaims, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court’s grant of summary judgment to plaintiff upon its first cause of action and dismissal of defendant’s counterclaims was proper. By affirming and ratifying the subject promissory note, defendant waived any claim of economic duress (see, Bank Leumi Trust Co. v D’Evori…