Legal Opinion
North Shore Bottling Co. v. C. Schmidt & Sons, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 29, 1968PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge Fuld.
This appeal, here by permission of the Appellate Division on a certified question, calls upon us to determine the validity, under the one-year provision of the Statute of Frauds, of an oral agreement which entitled the defendant to terminate its contractual arrangement with the plaintiff within one year of its making.
In October of 1960, plaintiff bottling company entered into an oral agreement with defendant Schmidt and Sons, a manufacturer of beer in Pennsylvania, “whereby”, the complaint recites, “ plaintiff became the exclusive wholesale distributor in Queens County of…
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