Trief v. Elghanayan

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paula Omansky, J.), entered February 20, 1997, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied plaintiffs’ cross motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

It is well-settled that “[i]n cases of doubt or ambiguity, a contract must be construed most strongly against the party who prepared it, and favorably to a party who had no voice in the selection of its language [citations omitted]” (Jacobson v Sassower, 66 NY2d 991, 993). Therefore, insofar as that part of the parties’ retainer…