STA Travel, Ltd. v. Raymond

197 A.D.2d 495, 603 N.Y.S.2d 8, 1993 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10068

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: October 28, 1993
• Status: Published

Opinion

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered May 4, 1993, insofar as it denied plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment for breach of contract, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The IAS Court properly determined that the issue of defendant’s mental capacity to contract cannot be decided on the existing record. Questions of fact exist as to whether defendant signed the agreement as the result of impulsive or irrational behavior (see, Blatt v Manhattan Med. Group, 131 AD2d 48, 52), given evidence of defendant’s manic depressive condition and suicide attempts related to the present accusations against him and by documentary evidence that the bulk of the airline tickets for which he agreed to make repayment were misappropriated from plaintiff’s office after he had stopped working there. Plaintiff’s failure to controvert this latter contention raises an issue of fact as to whether the agency knew or should have known that defendant was irrationally agreeing to make repayment for tickets that he could not have stolen. Concur—Carro, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin and Kassal, JJ.