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Absolute Direction, Inc. v. Anderson

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Feb 1, 1994
201 A.D.2d 256 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

Opinion

February 1, 1994

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Friedman, J.).


We find that since all of the breaches of the instant Management Agreement alleged by defendants would clearly constitute breaches of the specific terms of said Agreement, if proven, paragraph 14 of the Agreement required defendants to serve plaintiff with written notice of said breaches and an opportunity to cure said breaches. Since defendants failed to so serve plaintiff, plaintiff was entitled to summary judgment on the issue of liability. Defendants also claim that even though the Agreement specifically provided that all modifications and waivers must be in writing, there was a valid waiver of the notice and opportunity-to-cure requirements of paragraph 14 of the Agreement. However, the record not only fails to demonstrate such a waiver, there is no evidence, assuming an oral waiver did occur, that the parties' performance after the waiver was unequivocally referable to the oral agreement to modify (see, Grandonico v. Consortium Communications Intl., 566 F. Supp. 1288, 1291).

We have considered all other issues and find them to be meritless.

Concur — Murphy, P.J., Carro, Wallach and Ross, JJ.


Summaries of

Absolute Direction, Inc. v. Anderson

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Feb 1, 1994
201 A.D.2d 256 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
Case details for

Absolute Direction, Inc. v. Anderson

Case Details

Full title:ABSOLUTE DIRECTION, INC., Respondent, v. SAM ANDERSON et al.…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Feb 1, 1994

Citations

201 A.D.2d 256 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
607 N.Y.S.2d 25

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