Plaintiff cannot maintain a cause of action for breach of a contract of employment in the face of allegations in his own complaint that, given a choice between resignation and discharge, he resigned. Resignation is ordinarily a voluntary act, and the fact that plaintiff was threatened with discharge does not constitute such duress as to render the resignation involuntary (Clasen v. Doherty, 242 App. Div. 502; Halperin v. Wolosoff, 282 App. Div. 876, motion for...
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