Legal Opinion
Kranitz v. Strober Organization, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 5, 1992PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered October 18, 1990 as amended by order of said court and Justice entered on November 15, 1990 which dismissed the complaint as against defendants Strober Organization, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, Samuels, Chemical Bank and Bernstein, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiffs seek to void certain agreements on the ground of duress, claiming that the defendants threatened plaintiff Jay Kranitz with prosecution for certain criminal acts. Duress requires a showing of both a wrongful threat and the effect of precluding the…
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