Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
We reject the appellant's contention that the court erred in striking his second affirmative defense, which alleged that the provision in the mortgage calling for negative amortization was void. While "[i]t is true that the compounding of interest is not, by itself, usurious" (Giventer v Arnow,
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