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CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON CORPORATION, ETC., RESPONDENT, v. HAROLD E. COOKE, ET AL., APPELLANTS.

ORDERED that the appeal from the order is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed; and it is further,

ORDERED that the plaintiff is awarded one bill of costs.

The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see, Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248). The issues raised on appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (see, CPLR 5501[a][1]).

The Supreme Court properly granted summary judgment to the plaintiff. The defendant Harold E. Cooke did not accept the original terms of an agreement which the defendants contend modified the terms of the note and mortgage. Contrary to the defendants' contention, Cooke's additions and notations to the agreement constituted a rejection and counteroffer which rendered acceptance of the original terms impossible (see, Kleinberg v. Ambassador Assocs., 103 A.D.2d 347; see also, Willis v. Ronan, 218 A.D.2d 794). Consequently, the unpaid note and mortgage exist separate and apart from the subsequent agreement, and those terms are in full force and effect.

The defendants' further argument, that the Supreme Court erred in failing to direct arbitration of the subject dispute, is without merit. A party cannot be required to submit to arbitration matters that it has not agreed to arbitrate (see, Macy Co. v. National Sleep Prod., 39 N.Y.2d 268). The plaintiff never agreed to arbitrate any dispute regarding the note and mortgage, and those documents do not contain any reference to arbitration.

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CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON CORP. v. COOKE
(Jun 11, 2001)