Coinmach Industries Corp. v. Domnitch
| Decision Date | 28 October 1975 |
| Citation | 37 N.Y.2d 889,378 N.Y.S.2d 370,340 N.E.2d 735 |
| Parties | , 340 N.E.2d 735 COINMACH INDUSTRIES CORP., Respondent, v. Irving DOMNITCH, Appellant, et al., Defendant. |
| Court | New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
Stanley Thaler and Matthew Feinberg, New York City, for appellant.
Philip Mandel, New York City, for respondent.
We affirm the order of the Appellate Division, 46 A.D.2d 656, 361 N.Y.S.2d 321, with costs.
The oral agreement in this case falls squarely within the classic rule most recently restated by this court in North Shore Bottling Co. v. Schmidt & Sons, 22 N.Y.2d 171, 292 N.Y.S.2d 86, 239 N.E.2d 189, and is therefore not barred by the Statute of Frauds (General Obligations Law, § 5--701, subd. 1). The contingency, that the agreement would be terminated by appellant's sale of the buildings in which respondent was to place its coin-operated laundry machines, makes the contract capable of being performed within a year. The rule as articulated in North Shore Bottling Co. (supra, at p. 177, 292 N.Y.S.2d 86, 239 N.E.2d 189) simply stated is that '(t)he existence of one of two contingencies performable within a year is sufficient to take the case out of the statute'.
Appellants fail in their attempt to distinguish the oral agreement here from that in North Shore Bottling Co. (supra) on the ground, as they urge, that in this case the duration of the agreement was for a definite term of four years, while in North Shore Bottling Co. (supra) the agreement was for an indefinite term. We do not think this distinction is controlling. (See Blake v. Voigt, 134 N.Y. 69, 31 N.E. 256.)
The additional contentions advanced by appellants are of insufficient merit to warrant a different result from that reached by the court below.
Order affirmed.
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