Case ID: ad2d_225/html/0369-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J & H Stolow, Inc., et al., Appellants, v Epstein Becker & Green, P. C., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.
    [639 NYS2d 25]
   Plaintiffs’ attempt to hold their creditor’s attorneys liable for fraud for having sent them demand letters and then commencing an action on the creditor’s behalf to recover a loan that plaintiffs allege had been extended and was not in default, was properly rejected for failure to raise a bona fide issue (see, Assing v United Rubber Supply Co., 126 AD2d 590) of justifiable reliance (see, Wilsen Assocs. Real Estate Corp. v Pizilly, 204 AD2d 777, 778, citing, inter alia, Channel Master Corp. v Aluminium Ltd. Sales, 4 NY2d 403, 407). Concur — Ross, J. P., Nardelli, Williams and Mazzarelli, JJ.