Legal Opinion
Elghanayan v. Elghanayan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 10, 1993PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Milonas, J.
Plaintiffs and the three principal defendants, consisting of six brothers and another, now-deceased, brother formed a family partnership in the 1930’s in their native country, Iran. In 1959, they reduced their business relationship into a written agreement. The document, which was drawn up in Farsi and signed in Teheran, provides that the four older siblings, defendants Aghadjan, Davoud, Nourollah and the late Habib Elghanayan, would each own a 20% share of the business while the three younger brothers, plaintiffs Sion, Ataollah and Nedjatollah Elghanayan, would…
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