Lazard Freres & Co. v. First National Bank

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Ramos, J.), entered September 20, 1996, which denied the parties’ respective motions for summary judgment, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant summary judgment in favor of defendant only to the extent of dismissing the fourth cause of action for tortious interference with business relations, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

The documents relied on by plaintiffs were sufficient to *274withstand defendant’s motion for summary judgment based on the Statute of Frauds set forth in General Obligations Law § 5-701 (a) (1) (see, Crabtree v…