AMICUS AI
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes
Are you a practicing lawyer?
Enhance your digital presence and reach by creating a Casemine profile.
Upload pleading to use the new AI search
Cites
Cited by
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes

GURNEY, BECKER BOURNE, INC., Respondent, v. ROBERT B. SIMON, Appellant.

Order unanimously reversed, without costs, motion granted and complaint dismissed. Memorandum: The complaint alleges that plaintiff, a licensed real estate brokerage, entered into an oral agreement with defendant whereby defendant was to pay plaintiff brokerage commissions over a 10-year period as a percentage of rent on premises owned by defendant for which plaintiff had obtained a lessee. Defendant's motion to dismiss (CPLR 3211, subd [a], par 5) was properly granted by the City Court of Lackawanna on the ground that the oral agreement was unenforceable under the Statute of Frauds (General Obligations Law, § 5-701, subd a, par 1). County Court reversed, erroneously concluding that section 5-701 (subd a, par 10), which contains an exception for real estate brokers, was controlling and that the agreement was thus enforceable. County Court's determination that paragraphs 1 and 10 are mutually exclusive and that 10 applies in this situation has no support in the law (see Biskind Barasch, Law of Real Estate Brokers, § 67, p 164; see, also, Babtkis Assoc. v. Tarazi Realty Corp., 34 A.D.2d 754).

Use AI to get other relevant cases.

Comments

GURNEY, BECKER BOURNE, INC. v. SIMON
(Jul 9, 1982)