Slavenburg Corp. v. Opus Apparel, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, and the order and the judgment of Supreme Court, New York County, reinstated. The question certified should be answered in the negative.

We agree with the dissenter in the Appellate Division that the guarantee agreement signed by defendant Kestenbaum was so broad as to encompass the subsequent letter agreement between plaintiff and Nu-Ka-Pool Apparel, Inc., and that the subsequent execution of that agreement did not release him from his personal guarantee. Defendant’s conclusory allegation that…