Bay Parkway Nat. Bank of Brooklyn v. Shalom

Citation270 N.Y. 172,200 N.E. 685
PartiesBAY PARKWAY NAT. BANK OF BROOKLYN v. SHALOM.
Decision Date03 March 1936
CourtNew York Court of Appeals

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Action by the Bay Parkway National Bank of Brooklyn against Ishaia Shalom. From a judgment of the Appellate Division, Second Department (244 App.Div. 723, 278 N.Y.S. 350), affirming a judgment at Trial Term entered on the verdict of a jury, defendant appeals.

Judgment of Appellate Division and that of the Trial Term reversed and a new trial granted.

Appeal from Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second department.

Walter Jeffrey Carlin, of New York City, for appellant.

George A. Ferris and Bartholomew A. Moynahan, both of New York City, for respondent.

O'BRIEN, Judge.

The action is on a promissory note dated June 24, 1931, for $5,750, of which defendant is the maker. The defenses are lack of consideration, accommodation for the benefit of plaintiff, and an agreement that the note was not to be paid by defendant. This note is a renewal of one for $9,000, dated July 22, 1930.

Prior to the making of the original note dated July 22, 1930, Munsalli & Farbman, a partnership engaged in the sale of lingerie and also the French Lingerie Shop, Inc., a corporation which had taken over the stock of Munsalli & Farbman, were indebted to plaintiff bank. Defendant was a creditor of Munsalli & Farbman and became treasurer of French Lingerie Shop, Inc. He denies that he made any investment in that corporation prior to December, 1930, but admits that the signature, I. Shalom,’ as treasurer, on a document certified by Louis Munsalli as president and by Samuel Farbman as secretary concerning the adoption of resolutions by the board of directors of French Lingerie Shop, Inc., on July 9, 1930, is his signature.

Defendant gave his version in respect to the circumstances under which he signed the original note for $9,000, dated July 22, 1930, as well as the later notes, including the one in suit. In view of the verdict we must conclude that the jury credited this testimony. Nasser, a director of plaintiff bank, said to defendant: ‘Please, Mr. Shalom, I want you to sign notes for $9,000 for Munsalli & Farbman. * * * If you don't sign the note for Munsalli & Farbman, any day there will be a run on the bank,’ and that all defendant's friends would lose their deposits. Nasser added: ‘The bank examiner want to see the book. He can't show up the bank any loss because he was lost some money before, about $20,000; in a small bank if he see that $10,000 loss, the bank will be closed.’ Later a conversation occurred among defendant, the director Nasser, and the cashier of plaintiff during which, according to defendant's version, one or both of the bank's representatives said to defendant: ‘Don't be worried, we will never sue you for it, we will never ask you for it, because that note belongs to Munsalli & Farbman. We don't want to show on our book loss of $10,000 because we lost before about $20,000.’ In the course of that conversation Munsalli and Farbman arrived and were present with the cashier and the director of the bank when, according to defendant's version, the president of the bank added his entreaty: ‘Please, Mr. Shalom, help us out. Sign that note. That note belongs to Munsalli & Farbman; never ask you for it.’ With this understanding he signed the note. In the following September the amount due on the note had been reduced to $6,250, and defendant, under similar circumstances and entreaties, as he testified, signed a renewal for that amount. The note in suit is a renewal for $5,750. Defendant had an account with the bank and says that he signed the note for the purpose of saving the bank. Defendant's version is denied by plaintiff's witnesses. Their version is that the bank held a claim for $7,000 against...

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