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EARL JONES, Appellant-Respondent, v. ALBERTA R. JAMES, Respondent-Appellant.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The statute of frauds provides, inter alia, that "[a]n . . . interest in real property . . . cannot be created, granted, assigned, surrendered or declared, unless . . . by a deed or conveyance in writing, subscribed by the person creating, granting, assigning, surrendering or declaring the same" (General Obligations Law § 5-703). Here, because the complaint alleged, inter alia, that the defendant agreed to convey to the plaintiff, at some point in the future, half the interest in the subject real property, and because there was no deed or conveyance in writing regarding the proposed conveyance, the Supreme Court properly dismissed the plaintiff's first cause of action for breach of contract as barred by the statute of frauds ( see Lowinger v Lowinger, 287 AD2d 39, 44-45).

The Supreme Court properly denied those branches of the defendant's motion which were to dismiss the third and fourth causes of action to recover damages for fraud and conversion, respectively. The third cause of action adequately alleged a cause of action sounding in fraud ( cf. Watson v Pascal, 27 AD3d 459). As to the fourth cause of action, it sufficiently alleged facts that the defendant had title, possession, or control over money or property allegedly converted ( cf. Old Republic Natl. Tit. Ins. Co. v Cardinal Abstract Corp., 14 AD3d 678, 680).

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JONES v. JAMES
(Feb 13, 2007)