Hart v. Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Ltd.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered March 18, 1994, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Although timely brought, plaintiff’s cause of action for breach of an alleged oral contract involving an exchange of her services for a share of defendant’s corporate stock is barred by the Statute of Frauds contained in UCC 8-319 (see, Dillon v Peretti, 176 AD2d 497, 498; Goldfinger v Brown, 169 AD2d 702, 703). That plaintiff worked 20 years for defendants without any salary and without even…
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