On this appeal, defendant challenges only Special Term's dismissal of its affirmative defense of economic duress. We are confronted here with the question of whether a contracting party's expression of his subjective state of mind that he was threatened is sufficient to raise a question of fact as to whether he can rescind a contract signed by him on the basis that the threats constituted economic duress.
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