—In an action
Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed; and it is further,
Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by adding provisions thereto granting the plaintiff interest calculated from the date payment was demanded until the date of the judgment, and an award of an attorney’s fee; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Dutchess County, to compute the interest due and for a hearing to determine the amount of the attorney’s fee to be awarded to the plaintiff; and it is further,
Ordered that the plaintiff is awarded two bills 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,
The plaintiff brought this action to recover payment on three promissory notes that the defendant guaranteed. The plaintiff made out a prima case by establishing the existence of the notes and the defendant’s failure to make payments as called for by their terms (see, Interman Indus. Prods. v R. S. M. Electron Power,
The Supreme Court erred, however, in failing to award the plaintiff interest on the three notes from the date she demanded payment until the date of the judgment. Where a note provides for a specified interest rate, that rate shall be applied (see, Uniform Commercial Code § 3-122 [4]). If a note does not have an interest provision, but is payable on demand, interest accrues from the date of the demand (see, Van Vliet v Kanter,
The second and third notes provided that the plaintiff would be entitled to the reasonable costs of collection, including an attorney’s fee, in the event she brought an action to collect payment. Thus, the Supreme Court erred in failing to hold a hearing to determine the amount of the attorney’s fee to be awarded (see, Uniform Commercial Code § 3-106; see also, Coniglio v Regan,
