Court Opinion

ID: 5800129
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:26:11.371166+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:32.852204
License: Public Domain

Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered on February 4, 1975, denying defendant’s motion to vacate a judgment theretofore entered against him, unanimously affirmed. Respondents shall recover of appellant $40 costs and disbursements of this appeal. In this action to recover damages for conversion, the parties entered into a stipulation whereby a settlement figure was determined and defendant agreed to make installment payments over a specified period of time; plaintiffs agreed to execute a general release in defendant’s favor to be held in escrow until final payment; and both parties agreed to the entry of judgment against defendant, upon his failure to make such payments. Upon the subsequent default by defendant and, in accordance with the terms of the stipulation, judgment was entered in plaintiffs’ favor. On this record, and contrary to defendant’s allegations, we find that the stipulation was entered into by defendant freely and independently, of his own accord, uninfluenced by any acts of duress or misconduct on the part of the plaintiffs, and that the amount of the settlement was not unreasonable. Finding Special Term’s refusal to vacate the judgment entered herein proper, we affirm. Concur—Stevens, P. J., Kupferman, Lupiano, Capozzoli and Nunez, JJ.