Legal Opinion
Weitz v. Lewin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 8, 1998PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Winslow, J.), dated May 30, 1997, as granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
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