Case Name: High Steel Structures, Inc., Respondent, v. Buckram Industries Corp. et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2001-01-29
Citations: 279 A.D.2d 610
Docket Number: 
Parties: High Steel Structures, Inc., Respondent, v Buckram Industries Corp. et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 279
Pages: 610–611

Head Matter:
High Steel Structures, Inc., Respondent, v Buckram Industries Corp. et al., Appellants.
[719 NYS2d 880]

Opinion:
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the defendants appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (DeMaro, J.), entered November 3, 1999, as, after a nonjury trial, inter alia, awarded the plaintiff interest at a rate of 18% per annum and an attorney's fee.
Ordered that the judgment is modified, by deleting the second decretal paragraph thereof; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The court properly determined that the contract set forth in the plaintiffs Exhibit 21 was the contract entered into by the parties (see, UCC 2-204 [1]; 2-207 [3]). Accordingly, the defendants were bound by the provisions thereof (see, Ruttenberg v Davidge Data Sys. Corp., 215 AD2d 191, 195). However, the court improperly awarded the plaintiff an attorney's fee, since the defenses raised by the defendants were not "without substantial basis in fact or law" (State Finance Law § 137 [4] [c]). Altman, J. P., Goldstein, McGinity and Schmidt, JJ., concur.