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ERROR TO IMPOSE PRE-JUDGMENT INTEREST AT THE STATUTORY RATE WHEN CONTRACT PROVIDED THAT THE INTEREST-BEARING DOWNPAYMENT WAS THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR BREACH.

The First Department determined the down payment bearing interest at the rate agreed to in the (real estate) contract was the exclusive remedy. The court should not have awarded interest at the statutory rate:

The contract's terms, requiring that the down payment be placed in an interest-bearing account, so that the party entitled to the down payment would receive compensation for the deprivation of its use of the money in the form of accrued interest, were sufficiently clear to establish that interest paid at the statutory rate was not contemplated by the parties at the time the contract was formed and that the amount escrowed, including interest earned, should be the exclusive remedy to the wronged party … . Ithilien Realty Corp. v 176 Ludlow, LLC, 2016 NY Slip Op 04002, 1st Dept 5-24-16

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