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- Title: Santo Sorge v. Lawrence H. Nott
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 05, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Order, entered on May 7, 1962, granting defendant's motion to dismiss the amended complaint on the ground that the agreement alleged therein is unenforcible under the Statute of Frauds, unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, with $30 costs and disbursements to appellant, and the motion to dismiss the amended complaint denied. We agree with Special Term that the oral agreement between the parties was a contract to pay compensation for services rendered in negotiating the sale of a business opportunity, and hence unenforcible in the absence of a memorandum complying with the Statute of Frauds (Personal Property Law, § 31, subd. 10). We are unable to conclude, however, that the writings on which plaintiff relies constitute insufficient compliance as a matter of law. Plaintiff's letter to defendant of September 23, 1959 appears to contain the essential terms of the agreement between them, and it refers to a brochure, not part of the present record, which defendant had