Opinion
September 28, 1987
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (I. Aronin, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Assuming, arguendo, that it was improper for the trial court to deny the plaintiff's motion to conform the pleadings to the proof which tended to show that a previously rescinded written contract between the parties had been orally renewed, the defendants raised the affirmative defense of the Statute of Frauds with respect to the alleged oral contract. The bar of the Statute of Frauds having been interposed, the court could not find that the purported oral contract between the parties to sell real property was valid (see, General Obligations Law § 5-703). Nor should the defendants be equitably estopped from denying that a valid contract existed under the facts of this case (see, Huggins v. Castle Estates, 36 N.Y.2d 427, 433). Mollen, P.J., Mangano, Brown and Lawrence, JJ., concur.