Legal Opinion
Melwani v. Jain
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 20, 2001PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paula Omansky, J.), entered November 5, 1999, which, inter alia, dismissed plaintiffs causes of action for breach of contract, promissory estoppel and fraudulent inducement, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The alleged oral agreement, under which defendants were to pay plaintiff a royalty during his lifetime, and then pay it to his heirs in perpetuity, was correctly held to be unenforceable *277under the Statute of Frauds as incapable of performance within one year or of complete performance before the end of plaintiffs lifetime (General Obligations Law…
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